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Episode 65 - Teletype, Teleprint, and Telegrams
Advent of Computing
9/19/2021
9/19/2021
In today's episode we take a long hard look at the telegraph, and try to see how character encoding developed. We are dealing with 100% pre-computing technology, but there are some shocking similarities to later digital systems.
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- Early history of the electric telegraph
http://www.samhallas.co.uk/repository/telegraph/b6_baudot_multiplex.pdf
- 1934 pamphlet on the Baudot telegraph
https://ia800708.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/22/items/crossref-pre-1909-scholarly-works/10.1049%252Fjiee-1.1901.0058.zip&file=10.1049%252Fjiee-1.1905.0034.pdf
- Murray's comprehensive article on telegraphy
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