Comments on: Telecar http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/10/telecar/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:15:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/10/telecar/comment-page-1/#comment-1012677 Firebrand38 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:18:27 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/10/telecar/#comment-1012677 Telecar! You aren't the Telecar you're that Land Shark! Telecar!

You aren’t the Telecar you’re that Land Shark!

]]> By: Repack Rider http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/10/telecar/comment-page-1/#comment-1010741 Repack Rider Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:48:45 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/10/telecar/#comment-1010741 So basically, a guy drives to your house and hands you an email. So basically, a guy drives to your house and hands you an email.

]]> By: mrchurchill109 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/10/telecar/comment-page-1/#comment-1007867 mrchurchill109 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:29:17 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/01/10/telecar/#comment-1007867 For the life of me I don't know why they used a FAX transmission from the front office. Teletypes at that time were reliable though clunky machines that worked just fine of an FSK (frequency shift keying) signal with the right converter. Western Union was behind the times even with their own technology. They could have literally typed the silly thing out quicker, considering your average message was not all that many words. FAX even today is a finicky process - witness how often you get scrambled pictures of poor quality. Alan For the life of me I don’t know why they used a FAX transmission from the front office. Teletypes at that time were reliable though clunky machines that worked just fine of an FSK (frequency shift keying) signal with the right converter. Western Union was behind the times even with their own technology.

They could have literally typed the silly thing out quicker, considering your average message was not all that many words.

FAX even today is a finicky process – witness how often you get scrambled pictures of poor quality.

Alan

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