Buy payphones and retire(computer.rip)
436 points by cratermoon | 317 comments
A Computers Are Bad newsletter post by J. B. Crawford on the history of payphone investment schemes as a get-rich-quick, passive income scam.
#telecommunications-history on Hacker News
3 stories tagged telecommunications-history, newest first.
Minuteman missile communications(computer.rip)
351 points by sklargh | 59 comments
A Computers Are Bad newsletter article by J. B. Crawford on the communications systems, including HICS, used for Minuteman missile sites.
How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s(kottke.org)
430 points by bookofjoe | 107 comments
A kottke.org post embedding a 1937 video explaining how wire photos were transmitted to newspapers in the 1930s.