[GreenKeys] stnd alone 28 printing punch

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Don  this is  like the one  that I have    gray  but  not  navy...
 
where used? for  what...  like  ticker?!?
 
thanks!   Ed#
 

 
 
In a message dated 12/6/2012 7:34:52 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
k9tty at dls.net writes:

Employee  Stories
 
 
 
 
Back to the future: AT&T retiree makes  history
November 28, 2012
It was 1962. Gas cost 31 cents per gallon, “The  Beverly Hillbillies” was 
so-not-reality TV, and Princess phones were the  groovy way to chat up your 
friends.
Very few of us were with the company then and would  remember a day that 
changed our industry forever.  So Sterling Ditchey,  an energetic 89-year 
retiree, recently wrote a letter to Randall Stephenson to  share his memories of 
just how far the company has come.  Here’s his  story.
Sterling remembers very clearly the days leading up  to Aug. 31, 1962.  
Sterling, a Pacific Telephone District Manager, was  working in Southern 
California when he received a call asking him to join a  small team in New York 
City working on a groundbreaking special project.   Little did he know it 
would wind up making history.
In 1962, if you wanted to send a file, you put it in  an envelope and took 
it to the post office. If you felt like watching a movie,  you headed to the 
one theater in town.  And if you needed to send a text?  No problem. Just 
find the nearest TWX machine, or Teletypewriter  Station.
Typed or text messages were used mostly by  businesses (because why would 
anyone want to send a personal text message?) to  send information, or 
printed copy.  It worked like this: Using the TWX  machine, you dialed the number 
you wanted to send the message to. A  switchboard operator answered and 
manually connected you to the number. You  typed in the information and 
eventually, the text showed up on the machine at  the other end.  
All that changed late that summer when, for the  first time, the telephone 
network moved TWX transmission onto the voice  network. This marked the 
first time that data and voice were transmitted over  the same network. 
 “Techs around the country spent that year  modifying the 66,000 TWX 
machines in existence at the time with a modem-like  device that eliminated the 
manual transfer by the operator,” Sterling said.  “At 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 31, 
the nationwide cutover took place.”  The  precursor of today’s data network 
was born.
According to Sterling, customers were very happy  with what was considered 
a huge improvement in how long it took to send a  message: “In 1962, our 
data speed was considered outstanding.” Speeds hit 75  bits per second, or 60 
words per minute. A single page of text took about 4  minutes to transmit.
Fifty years later, our network transmits data in a  fraction of a second, 
while the volume continues to skyrocket. Back in 1961,  about 2.5 million 
messages a month were transmitted on the network. Today?  Over 63 billion text 
messages are sent each month over our wireless  network.
Sterling had no idea that he was pioneering a new  age of technology. But, 
as he says now, “It was a step into the  future.”  
And where’s Sterling now? After 43 years of loyal  service, he retired in 
1984 and is enjoying the Southern California  sunshine.
We’ve come a long way, baby. (Thanks,  Sterling!)
 
 




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