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A Web Around the World, Part 7: Computers on the Wire
- jgrahamc 5y agoBy this point, telegraphy’s old manually operated Morse keys had been long since replaced by teletype machines that looked and functioned like typewriters, doing the grunt work of translating letters into Morse Code for the operator and The attendees were given the chance to type out mathematical problems on the teletype, which sent them up the line as Morse Code to the Complex Computer installed at Bell Labs’s facilities in New York City. The latter translated the dots and dashes of Morse Code into numbers, performed the requested calculations, and sent the results back to Dartmouth, where they duly appeared on the teleprinter I doubt they used Morse for this. By 1937, five level teleprinter codes were in use and the related patent 2,434,681 clearly shows use of a five level code.