Re: 1958 ADT video

["Nick Markowitz Jr." <nick-markowitz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

They were state of the art at the time
the fire red pole boxes used the paper tapes too but it went between 2 reels
and it punched holes instead of using a pen like the McCullough loop tapes
you saw in the video

"Beachcomber" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
>>An interesting ADT promotional video from 1958, complete with phony police
>>and fire chiefs.  Includes old central station footage, for those of you
>>who have never been in a non-computerized central station.
>>
>>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4363717212007724069
>>
>
> All those paper strip telegraph printers were interesting.  Must have
> been state-of-the art 50 years ago.