Pony Express
Communication Type
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What was it?
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When was it used?
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What did it replace?
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What replaced it?
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24 hours...rain or shine!
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Daring Pony Express Riders, and their noble steeds carried mail 1,966 miles between Missouri and California
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April 1860 -
October 1861
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It needed a way to get mail and other communications quickly as possible
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Morse Code
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A method of transmitting text information as a series of no-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipments
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1830s - 1840s
Also WW2 for pilots and air traffic controllers
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Morse code is being replaced with a Synchronization Semaphore
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A satellite-Based system where it is more effective that Morse Code.
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Semaphore
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a semaphore is a variable or abstract data type used to control access to a common resource by multiple processes in a concurrent system such as a multiprogramming operating system.
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1962-1963
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Netley Heath station of the shutter telegraph
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A semaphore that was more effective
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ASCII
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is a character encoding standard for electronic communication.
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May 1963
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This is the Challenge! Copy the code representations for the word Pat.
Alphabet
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ASCII Binary
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ASCII Octal
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Semaphore
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Morse Code
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P
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01010000
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120
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L _I
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. _
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A
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01000001
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101
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L /\
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. _ _ .
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T
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01010100
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124
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L\I
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_
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