Big City Sign 1939

Big City Sign 1939

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Charlie writes – “Very cool article from 1939 about the first programmable electronic sign in Times Square (think the grandfather of the Jumbotron). Every single change of a light, and there are 27,000 of them, is punched as a row on a 160 column roll of paper that gets fed through the vast machine.” Link.

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  1. HaraldHansen says:

    Not available in Norway… The copyright holders seem to have a fear of the world market…

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