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Win a Letter

19 May 2019 by Stève Leave a comment

Old Railway Technology

Today I was travelling back home from Germany by train. The fastest connection I could find was leading me through the Black Forest region on really small railway lines.
I was just reading "The Typewriter Revolution" when I saw this strange and interesting installation at a small station. Probably strongly influenced by my reading, this sight reminded me of the wires used in the Selectrics and the type levers in mechanical typewriters.
Only that these cables were some hundreds meters long and moving railway signals instead of types.
A nice example of another technical system where the way it works is easily understood, unlike todays black boxes.
Typed on my IBM 96C (aka Selectric) Winterthur, 10 May 2019

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