The Telegraph and The Digital Revolution

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The Telegraph

Pulse Width Modulation Code

  • akin to Morse code
  • based upon letter frequency in Delang
  • a shift character code switches between letters and numbers and punctuation
    • each transmission blocks are separated by two shift characters
      Ex: SHIFT SHIFT T H I S SPACE I S SPACE A SPACE T E S T SHIFT 1 2 3 SHIFT SHIFT
  • numbers 1-5 is 1 to 5 dots, while 6 to 9 is one dash and 1 to 4 dots. zero is two dashes
    1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ▄▄▄, 7 ▄▄▄, 8 ▄▄▄, 9 ▄▄▄, 0 ▄▄▄▄▄▄
  • punctuations: PERIOD/BREAK ▄▄▄, COMMA ▄▄▄, QUESTION MARK ▄▄▄▄▄▄, EXCLAMATION MARK ▄▄▄▄▄▄

The Digital Revolution

The First Computers

  • electro-mechanical digital computers
  • wire based digital internal storage using PWMC
    • the digital storage was constructed using a mechanical telegraph key as output, a long coiled string, and a pickup transducer to pick up the signal
    • required a refresh circuit
  • no external digital storage

Second Generation Computers

  • mostly electronically digital computers
  • removable magnetic wire coil external storage using PWMC
    • wire coil strung from one spindel to another through a magnetic read/write head

Zero Deliminated Character Code

  • binary stream based digital storage
  • based upon Pulse Width Modulation Code
  • shift character codes switches between lower case, upper case, numbers, punctuation, and codes