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Roughly the same as "Emoticons" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon >>> George Brock-Nannestad <[log in to unmask]> 11/5/2009 1:56 PM >>> From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad Hello, Steve Smolian asked: > What is "type-wri-toon?" It doesn't show up on a search. > ----- it is a misspelling, I am sorry. The correct way is "Typewri-Toons", and it is my belief they were invented by MAD Magazine, of which I hold a few from the early 1960s, when they were an important input to me about American culture, which I was sometimes surrounded by. Spelling it this way, I found results on Google (saving me the trouble of finding my copy, although I know where it is [supposed to be]), such as: " MAD magazine did it first Written by Jared Leone Jared Leone, a TheSequitur.com senior editor, is a staff writer for the St. Petersburg Times and a federal courthouse stringer for the Associated Press. Thursday, 20 September 2007 MAD Magazine did it first Typewri-toons were supposed to take the world by storm. The comic feature in MAD Magazine made light of the sideways reading of special characters produced by a typewriter. The keyboard, the typewriter of today, supposedly was the tool that created the first "smiley" :-) face in 1982. Scott E. Fahlman, a Carnegie Mellon University professor, is credited with first using the colon, hyphen, and parentheses to end a message posted to an electronic bulletin board. Here is wishing the sideways smiley face a happy 25th birthday. I still say MAD Magazine started it. ;-p " I fully and independently agree; I LOLled when smileys came along as the "new" use of signs. However, my son tells me that it is as old as typesetting. And certainly, I have enjoyed using Christian Morgenstern's "Des Fisches Nachtgesang" when discussing translations. Only, here the parentheses are turned. Kind regards, George > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ted Kendall" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:30 AM > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] power line frequency > > > > At the risk of telling everybody something they already know, the > > Tonschreiber had a wide range of capstan speed to facilitate its purpose > > in life, which was to protect U-boats from the Allies' Huff-Duff detection > > apparatus. This, using two orthogonal antennae and a Lissajous display, > > could generate a practically instant fix from a U-boat transmission. The > > solution adopted was to record Morse at slow speed, replay at high speed > > to keep the transmission as short as possible and restore pitch with the > > rotating head-drum. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Shai Drori" <[log in to unmask]> > > To: <[log in to unmask]> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:08 AM > > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] power line frequency > > > > > >> The solution is very simple. The capstan of the Tonschreiber did not run > >> off the incoming AC but had an oscillator and amplifier as a servo. It > >> could run at any speed from I think 9 to 130 cm/sec. > >> > >> Richard L. Hess wrote: > >>> At 07:09 PM 2009-11-03, you wrote: > >>>> From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad > >>>> ....SNIP..... > >>>> The story continues. I would not be surprised to learn that northern > >>>> Italian > >>>> records were cut with machines run off 14 Hz or 16 2/3 Hz, which were > >>>> in use > >>>> for traction purposes. Let us see if a type-wri-toon will work here: > >>>> ;-) - > >>>> yes, it did. > >>> > >>> Hi, George, > >>> > >>> One thing that intrigued me is that the Tonschreiber version of the > >>> Magnetophon which was analyzed in depth after WWII by some Army > >>> Engineers who appeared to do a good job apparently could work from 25-60 > >>> Hz. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Richard > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] > >>> Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX > >>> Detailed contact information: > >>> http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm > >>> Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes. > >> > >