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Nog van vóór de inbelmodem, persfotografie verzonden via een primitieve scanner gekoppeld aan een analoge telefoon. Dat ging behoorlijk piepknor en duurde even (het ontwikkelen van je filmrolletje en maken foto afdruk niet meegerekend).
“First, you place a print on the drum and start the transmitter. The drum then rotates at a consistent speed while a scanning beam would move slowly across the photo, scanning one line at a time. Transmitting the analog signal required a connection to a phone line.
[…] Using this type of transmitter was painfully slow: one black and white photo took 8-9 minutes to send, and subsequent devices for color photos weren’t faster.”
Petapixel.com/2015/07/26/this-is-how-press-photos-were-transmitted-back-in-the-1970s/ (via 990000)
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