The Telegraph and The Digital Revolution

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The Telegraph

А (A) / 1 Ј (J) ▄▄▄▄▄▄ L (R) / 0 ▄▄▄▄▄▄
Ҩ (AU) ▄▄▄ К (K) ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ Ѕ (S) / 5
Б (B) / 9 ▄▄▄ Л (L) ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ Z (SJ) ▄▄▄▄▄▄
З (C) ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ Љ (LL) ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ Т (T) / 6 ▄▄▄
Δ (D) ▄▄▄▄▄▄ М (M) ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ И (U) ▄▄▄▄▄▄
Е (E) / 2 Н (N) / ! ▄▄▄▄▄▄ В (V) ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
Є (EU) ▄▄▄▄▄▄ Њ (NG) ▄▄▄▄▄▄ Ѡ (W) ▄▄▄▄▄▄
F (F) / . ▄▄▄ О (O) / 4 Р (X) / 8 ▄▄▄
Г(G) ▄▄▄▄▄▄ П (P) ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ Y (Y) ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
Ƕ (H) ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ Ь (Q) / ? ▄▄▄▄▄▄ С (Z) / 3
І (I) / , ▄▄▄ Ҍ (QJ) ▄▄▄▄▄▄ Ҫ (ZJ) ▄▄▄
ツ / 7 ▄▄▄ つ / 〶 ▄▄▄▄▄▄ (SHIFT) ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄

Pulse Width Modulation Code

The Illomi telegraph system used a pulse with modulated character code akin to Morse code, though the codes used are based upon letter frequency in Delang. The shift code (▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄) had multiple functions. A single shift code switches between letters, and numbers and punctuation, while two starts and end a transmission blocks.

After the radio telegraph became standard on ships and boats, two special codes was agreed upon, the emergency code (4 or 5 unbroken shift codes), and the attention code (3 unbroken Ҩ (AU) codes).


  • Ex: SHIFT SHIFT T H I S SPACE I S SPACE A SPACE T E S T SHIFT 1 2 3 SHIFT SHIFT
    ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄     ▄▄▄         ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄

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

Third Generation Computers

  • transistor based digital computers

Fourth Generation Computers

  • integrated circuit based digital computers

Fifth Generation Computers and Beyond

Stagnation and The Zeron