RE: [Thinkpad] Baud rates

Bill,
A 5-bit (Baudot) teleprinter (=telex) used by the British General Post
Office from around WWII to the late 70's. You guys had ASR33s, we had the
Creed - Oh the smell of hot oil! Strictly a comms device but was pressed
into service by early computer experimenters (and me) as an I/O device. The
Creed (perhaps not a model 7) was apparently even used by the Enigma
de-crypters at Bletchley Park during the war in conjunction with the first
;-) computer...
My dad worked on them whilst in the British Army Signals Corp in North
Africa in 1942-3. He tells a great story of making regular visits to a
house down the road where an equivalent US Army team worked - apparently a
PX truck used to deliver them ice cream most afternoons - such luxury!
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill - ThinkPads dot Com [mailto:bill@thinkpads.com]
Sent: 23 July 2003 21:15
To: dave_djs@ntlworld.com; thinkpad@stderr.org
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Baud rates

a what..??

but this proves i'm not the earliest computer
assembler/user/curser, etc.

and yes, CURSEr and yes it IS a pun and play on words.. :-)

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Cordially,
Bill Morrow
(from NetFinity Server)
web page: http://www.thinkpads.com
bill@thinkpads.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Smith" <dave_djs@ntlworld.com>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:00 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Baud rates

> Babies!
> Remember 50Bd (Creed model 7)?
> Dave
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