26 May
2012
26 May
'12
6:23 p.m.
On Sat, 26 May 2012, Toby Thain wrote:
Right. I just meant a visual encoding. But it was
analogue, and not
computer or telecoms, so my answer was not responsive anyway. :)
Well, if we allow film, then howzbout:
Vannevar Bush and his "Memex" or
Emmanuel Goldberg's "Rapid Selector" (which unlike Bush's, actually
existed)
Both were optical encoding of half a dozen bits accompanying each fram of
film