Talk:TV Typewriter

kilowatt?
What is a "300 kilowatt message board"? Should it maybe be "bit" or "byte" rather than "watt?" j-beda 15:12, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

They were large outdoor signs, such as a stadium score board. SWTPC6800 22:54, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Section Move
I think Radio-Electronics section should be moved to Radio-Electronics page 70.52.63.57 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 03:08, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

I have a complete Radio Electronics article in the works. This information should stay with the TV Typewriter. SWTPC6800 (talk) 03:57, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

television typewriter incident
A few decades ago, there was an incident in which someone was in the hospital for some reason and wanted to log into a computer (perhaps the ITS machine at MIT). So, this person's friends tried to bring in a terminal for him to use. When they got to hospital security, they were stopped. Undeterred, the friends came back the next day with the terminal. This time they called it a "television typewriter" and went on to demonstrate how what you type appears on the television. Not being aware of the utter uselessness of such a device, the guard let the friends take the terminal in. Would this be worth mentioning here? Frotz (talk) 21:08, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * What's that?
 * A terminal.
 * Let's see... "typewriters, televisions..." Nope.  "Terminal" isn't on the list of allowed things.

TV Typewriter Cookbook cassette interface design
The article states: The cassette interface design from chapter 7 was the basis for the Kansas City standard. The KC symposium was held in November 1975, and the KC spec was published in Byte February 1976. So was the TV Typewriter Cookbook, published December 1976, cassette interface design based on the KC standard, rather than the other way around? Clarification needed. Wbm1058 (talk) 18:45, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

The article also says, Don Lancaster wrote about (data storage on cassette tape) in the September 1975 issue of BYTE magazine and his TV Typewriter Cookbook. So would it be correct to say that the September 1975 issue of BYTE was the basis for the Kansas City standard, and chapter 7 of TV Typewriter Cookbook? Wbm1058 (talk) 19:09, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

The Computer History Museum's Timeline of Computer History includes the TV Typewriter as a significant 1973 milestone. It says: A 90-minute cassette tape provided supplementary storage for about 100 pages of text. Is that not accurate? There was no cassette tape interface until 1975? Wbm1058 (talk) 19:26, 1 February 2012 (UTC)