Strad-new concept for signal transmission, reception and distribution

A general discussion of the basic principles behind this electronics version of a torn-tape system capable of receiving, storing, and retransmitting different forms of coded information. There is a discussion of reliability, particularly from the point of view of equipment duplication, of storage problems leading to the use of single common store of all incoming and outgoing lines in most cases and to the principles on which the size of the store is calculated, and on various miscellaneous matters such as the general flexibility of the system and the requirements for monitoring and supervision. The circuits and components are not discussed in detail but there are illustrations of some of the more important units.