> On Jan 14, 2026, at 3:04 PM, David Wade via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On 14/01/2026 18:56, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: >> >> ...By "telegrams" did you mean Wheatstone tape, i.e., two rows to encode >> Morse? I've only seen that in ads for McElroy/Creed punched paper Morse >> code machines (e.g, in the 1954 ARRL Amateur Radio Handbook). > In the UK telegrams and I assume from this listing:- > > https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192535576139 > > were printed on gummed tape that was stuck onto a card for delivery.....
I forgot about that stuff. The Wheatstone tape I mentioned is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheatstone_system paul
