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The second video mentions a trucking strike, and that messages were passed between telex sites on alternate shipping options. Supposedly, this was instrumental
by chasil 4y ago
The second video mentions a trucking strike, and that messages were passed between telex sites on alternate shipping options.
Supposedly, this was instrumental in breaking the strike, which was not instigated by the workers, but by the owners of the trucking firms, in reaction to a move towards nationalization of some of them.
- deepdriver 4y agoYes, and telex machines were nothing new in 1972. They were invented in Germany in the 1930s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex#Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex#Development When you boil it down to the details, Project Cybersyn really wasn't much. A lot of old telex stations, one mainframe, untested hand-wavey ideas about economic control theory, and some very nice Star Trek armchairs.
- chasil 4y agoI agree, the network looks like a bunch of modems connected to a single host's tty driver.
- salmo 4y agoReminds me of the bank of modems we hung off our VAX to let employees telnet and do work from home. It was like maybe 32 28.8 modems. My memory is so vague, and it was just a pile of cables and boxes behind the VAX. I mostly just flipped the power on and off the ones that went totally sideways and tried not to step on things. It was really cable neglect more than management. After hours, we’d let employees use it as an ISP. It was slow, just 2xISDN from there to our ISP, but it let some employees get internet access that couldn’t afford the bill. I know at lease one warehouse worker’s kid ended up being a developer after having that mid-90s access. I hope it helped him and maybe others. Crazy to think, they’re probably around 40 now.