[GreenKeys] Tape Relay backlogs

Jim Haynes jhhaynes at earthlink.net
Sat Dec 7 13:27:26 EST 2024


I read a book, probably "United States Army in Vienam.  Military
Communications, a test for technoloty" by John D. Bergen.  There's an
anecdote in there about an OO precedence message that took something
like 8 hours to punch into tape, during which time all lower precedence
messages had to wait.

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