Re: Treasure trove of Packard history

Posted by Owen_Dyneto On 2017/2/10 10:15:34

In the mid 1960s my company built a chemical manufacturing plant in Belgium. Communication by telephone was far to expensive except for the most urgent items, so 99% of all correspondence was by International Teletype. If it was somewhat urgent you could go by direct wire to someone on the other end and chat back and forth, but for normal business all the day's outgoing messages were first prepared on punch tape and then the tape set to feed and send the messages during non-peak hours at more reasonable rates.

Sorry for digression, Teletype brought back a flood of memories.

JD, just curious - which airline?