Hi-tech comes
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History was made by Floyd Takeuchi’s column in this month’s issue of P.I.M. With it our correspondents have en tered the high-technology age of computers talking to each other across vast distances.
Floyd, from his office in Hon olulu, transmitted his column to P.I.M. headquarters in Sydney in about 3 minutes, using, at his end, his portable Kaypro II computer to speak to P.l.M’s.
NEC terminal. At his end a Hayes modem connected him through the telephone lines of
Hawaii Bell Telephone to the overseas cable of Cable and Wireless and Australia’s O.T.C. and thus to Australian Tele com’s phone system and the Avtek multi-modem in P.l.M.’s offices. The file was edited and then transmitted, again by Aus tralian Telecom telephone lines to the central type-setting sys tem in Melbourne.
All of this happened with speed and accuracy, and en ables P.I.M. to serve its readers better, faster, and closer to the news of our region.