[GreenKeys] The Money Machine
Robert Nickels
ranickels at gmail.com
Sun Jan 17 19:11:40 EST 2021
Is an episode of the "Mission Impossible" TV series that I've been a big
fan of since the 60s. A Teletype machine played an important role in
an episode last night called "The Money Machine", when tech guru Barney
Collier patched it into a financial news circuit and sent fake
information as part of the MI plan involving a computerized machine that
prints counterfeit money:
https://missionimpossible.fandom.com/wiki/The_Money_Machine
The teletype machine is brought in with the housing removed, which is
then assembled and prepared by team members. It looked like a 28KSR
to me, and Barney did appear to type the message very smoothly by hand
rather than sending a tape (which was obviously done for filming).
I couldn't decide which is more impressive: that Barney always knows
just where to put those alligator clips, or that the writers were able
to envision ink-jet printing decades before it was a reality (loading
the machine with liquid red, green, blue, and black inks).
73, Bob W9RAN
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