[SunRescue] old storage [was Offerings]

[William Janssen]

The Navy had wire recorders for voice at the end of WW2. Don't know of
about earlier or any other use.

Bill K7NOM

Kurt A. Huhn wrote:
> 
> This leads me to an interesting thing my dad told me ages ago.  He told
> me about a method of storage they used in the navy (where he was an
> instructor at the Great Lakes facility in Illinois) that used a metal
> wire run through a magnetic reader of some sort.  He was a
> math/geometry/calculus instructor there so he didn't have specifics, but
> he did say that it went through *extremely* fast.  One of the
> technicians removed a cover of some sort to troubleshoot something and
> nearly had a finger removed when he got too close to the wire.
> 
> Any one know what this was?
> 
> --kurt
> 
> scohen - Stephen Cohen wrote:
> >
> > It was Eckert and Mauchly, the builders of ENIAC.
> >
> > Stephen P. Cohen           Email:  scohen at acxiom.com
> > Acxiom Data Network        Phone:  (501)336-2054
> > Logistics Business Unit    Fax:    (501)336-3910
> >
> > Acxiom Corporation         Web:     http://www.acxiom.com
> > 301 Industrial Boulevard
> > Conway, AR   72033
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andy Wallis [mailto:rawallis at bsu-cs.bsu.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 09:52 AM
> > To: rescue at ohno.mrbill.net
> > Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Offerings
> >
> > > So, who was it? *grin*
> > > Us young dudes, only approaching 40, wanna know...
> >         Since Turing was dead at the time, was it Alonzo Church, Zeeman or
> > the guys who built ENAIC?
> >         -Andy
> >
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> Kurt A. Huhn
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