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   John Ames to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: the early teletype   
   14 Nov 24 09:06:00   
   
   XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 06:56:20 -0000 (UTC)   
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
      
   > You could hear such signals quite frequently on short-wave radio -- a   
   > rapid series of tones alternating between two pitches -- much faster   
   > than Morse code.   
      
   Brings back childhood memories of listening to my dad communicating   
   with his (deaf) parents via TDD, and hearing the little Baudot trills   
   coming over the acoustic coupler...   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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