How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926)

[usonian]

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[chicoescuela]

1. Holy cow. I didn't understand it but what a process.

I’m impressed

[Beartracks]

2. Friggin genius.

And 100 years later, I'm impressed that it only took 1-1/4 minutes to recreate the photographic negative from the tape after sending the signal across the pond.

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[Javaman]

3. I wonder if any of those original tapes still exist? nt

[lastlib]

5. My first computer programs in college were saved/loaded on paper tape.....

That was in 1977, IIRC. I saved a few, even though I had no way to read them. I threw the last one away about three years ago.

I would bet that some still exist somewhere, but they were not a very efficient storage method.

[erronis]

4. Reminds me of those days feeding paper-tape spools into a computer

Spools came from various manufacturing sites (HD Lee bluejeans) shipped overland to KC. Fed into an IBM 360, then punched onto cards and sorted by hand (my main job). Read back into 360 and written to magnetic tape for another series of processes.

Paper tape is fragile and would frequently break while being read. Splice it back together with scotch tape losing a few bits along the way. The price of business back then.