On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:50:58 -0800, Dave W7DPW wrote:
>As I remember the Hyphen was originally used when pounding on GREEN
>Keys and is was very difficult to compensate for the USOS when
>inserting a space character between numeric characters. A hyphen is
>in FIGS case and one only had to press the HYPHEN key instead of
>SPACE,FIGS keys, exspecially nice for us two finger typists. I
>remember sending FIGS twice to make sure it that the receiving machine
>was in the proper case. Soime machines didn't have USOS and it was
>necessary to make sure that LTRS was send after any FIGS were
>complete, and twice at that.. EndOfLine sequence was a multiple key
>effort especially to compesate for slow mechanical platens. As I
>remember it was CR, CR, LF, LTRS and the LTRS was sometimes sent
>twice.
>
>Just nostalgia ..
>
>Dave W7DPW
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Interesting bit of history. Thanks, Dave. I came on the scene too late
for the "Green Keys". :-)
--
73, Bill W6WRT
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