Telex machine or old calculator in use in India: nostaglia from the 1970's!
- 5 years ago
Please help us confirm that this is indeed a telex machine in use in India... View a clutch of old technology being used in the remote islands of Andaman and Nicobar, India, in the 1970's and 1980's. Or is this the progenitor of the modern personal or home computer, by way of a simple calculator?
The old 2-in-1 on the desk looks like a typical National Panasonic cassette player cum radio set from the 1970's!
Viewer mrfantastiko says that "If you refer to the footage starting from 0:31 to 0:40, well it is not because:
1)The printer is too much little to allow 68 characters (telex paper size is abt 210mm)
2)The keyboard is far from the possible layout of a teleprinter
My opinion is that it's a sort of special desktop calculator."
Our viewer teleprinterdotnet also suggests that this is an electronic calculating machine.
Please confirm his hypothesis and add your own! We wait to hear from you, viewers!
Viewer Adam Gill suggests: "This looks very much like a dual-roll accounting calculator - a bit like a compucorp from the 70's.
The tell-tale sign is in the keypad (not keyboard) layout - 4 distinct banks of keys; far left are controls for output/printing, central are the keys for digit input and then, left and right of the digit inputs, are the same row of calculations keys, designed for left- and right-handed operators..."
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.
The old 2-in-1 on the desk looks like a typical National Panasonic cassette player cum radio set from the 1970's!
Viewer mrfantastiko says that "If you refer to the footage starting from 0:31 to 0:40, well it is not because:
1)The printer is too much little to allow 68 characters (telex paper size is abt 210mm)
2)The keyboard is far from the possible layout of a teleprinter
My opinion is that it's a sort of special desktop calculator."
Our viewer teleprinterdotnet also suggests that this is an electronic calculating machine.
Please confirm his hypothesis and add your own! We wait to hear from you, viewers!
Viewer Adam Gill suggests: "This looks very much like a dual-roll accounting calculator - a bit like a compucorp from the 70's.
The tell-tale sign is in the keypad (not keyboard) layout - 4 distinct banks of keys; far left are controls for output/printing, central are the keys for digit input and then, left and right of the digit inputs, are the same row of calculations keys, designed for left- and right-handed operators..."
This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.