[GreenKeys] Quick Brown Fox

Harold Hallikainen harold at w6iwi.org
Tue Feb 15 22:03:23 EST 2022



On Tue, February 15, 2022 7:59 pm, Jim Haynes wrote:
> The late Ran Slayton, engineer with Teletype and before that with Western
> Union, taught himself to type the quick brown fox backwards by hand.  I
> was told that at a certain demonstration of a system for the Navy he
> had the honor of typing in the test message and that's what he typed.
>

That's great! At our college radio station, we had Ampex 350 tape machines
with full track heads. We would say a name or phrase, play it backwards,
record it as tried to say it backwards (imitating the previous recording),
then play THAT backwards. So, in college, we learned to talk backwards...

Harold
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