Todd Boss

Before the days of the electric telegraph, several optical telegraph lines were constructed. Towers were placed every 5 to 20 kilometers apart. An operator in each tower would look through a telescope at the previous station and copy its signal using semaphores, which would then be copied by the next tower. Messages could be transmitted at over 1000 kilometers per hour, which was a huge inprovement over a messenger on horseback.

I’ve been pleasantly surprised with the amount of coverage, even in the mainstream, of the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64. That little beige computer was the best money my folks ever spent (at least for me). If only I could have convinced them to keep it after we bought our first Windows PC a decade later. Oh well…at least an emulator doesn’t need its own desk.