Transmission of business machine data over standard telegraph channels

THE transmission of digital information over long distances for the operation of business machines is a problem that will engage increasing attention of communication engineers. High-speed electronic computer-type business machines are being called upon more and more to operate on information fed from distant points. This new form of transmission results in encoded information which is not at all intelligible in the accustomed sense. Such communication is nevertheless telegraphy in every true sense of the word. The record of this new form of record communication may not be a printed page but rather a record more easily reread into the computer machine when needed. The technical problems encountered in the transportation of business-machine information from one point to another are those long familiar to the telegraph engineer.