[GreenKeys] Rock and Roll Teletype 'experts'

[Bjørn Vermo]

On 9 Jun, 2005, at 23:05, John Foust wrote:

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>> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 16:52:03 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: John Lawson <jpl15 at panix.com>
>> To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: [GreenKeys] Rock and Roll Teletype 'experts'
>>
>>  Clever use of Baudot code on an album cover - fascinating 
>> information from "experts" on the origins of it - I bet none of us 
>> knew that ITU 1 was "...used in Teletype machines in the late 1800s."

Really? I would have thought most people here knew that Baudot's 
teletype dates back to 1870, and was operational in 1877.
His keyboard had only five keys, but it was ITU 1.
Or do think it is little known because Britain were late adopters and 
the US was on a different trail?

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-bv