14 Jan
2026
14 Jan
'26
1:39 p.m.
Thanks Paul for that great bit of info. Would you mind if I reposted it to the Discord
whete it was first mentioned.
If so, do you want me to delete your name or can i attribute it to you?
Wayne
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 14, 2026, at 13:08, Paul Koning via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Jan 14, 2026, at 3:04 PM, David Wade via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I forgot about that stuff. The Wheatstone tape I mentioned is this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatstone_system
paul
On 14/01/2026 18:56, Paul Koning via cctalk
wrote:
...By "telegrams" did you mean Wheatstone tape, i.e., two rows to encode Morse?
I've only seen that in ads for McElroy/Creed punched paper Morse code machines (e.g,
in the 1954 ARRL Amateur Radio Handbook).
In the UK telegrams and I assume from this listing:-
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192535576139
were printed on gummed tape that was stuck onto a card for delivery.....