[Qcwa] Memory Lane !!

[Jeffrey D Angus]

FrankWeiss@aol.com wrote:

>Everyone on this reflector 
>remembers wire photos, and RCA and Western Electric had that industry tied 
>u[p for years in the 1930s and 40s.
>
Back in the early 70's while I was working at TRW in Redondo Beach,
I cruised up to J.J. Glass in Los Angeles and picked up several Western
Union FAX machines. They used a synchronized rotating drum to send
and receive. The transmitter looked at the scan spot and modulated a
tone (AM) with the "gray scale" intensity. The receiver decoded the
tone output and coupled a "contact wiper" with the paper from the
plate of a 6V6 (I think) and literally burned the paper with the image.
It was great fun, first over the phone line with a pair of phone patch
couplers sending images back and forth with a buddy of mine out of
a Mad Magazine "Don Martin Steps Out" paper back book. Then
switching over and sending them back and forth over 40 meters.

Our next hair ball scheme revolved around a pair of OLD turret
type TV cameras and a couple of even older RCA "suitcase"
mobile UHF radio units.

Jeff
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