WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1987
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NEW MILESTONE IN SERVICE TO MEDIA
THE NEW TELEPRINTER NETWORK IN GOVERNMENT INFORMATION (GIS), WHICH REPLACES THE SYSTEM THAT HAD SERVED KONG FOR MANY YEARS, OFFICIALLY CAME INTO OPERATION
SERVICES
THE MEDIA IN HONG
TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
CHINESE TEXTS
IT PROVIDES FOR THE DIRECT INPUT OF ENGLISH AND
TO MORE THAN 60 AND THE SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMISSION OF A NEWS ITEM
STATIONS AT A SPEED OF 100 NEWSPAPERS, AGENCIES AND TV AND RADIO ENGLISH CHARACTERS OR 20 CHINESE WORDS PER SECOND WHICH IS MANY QUICKER THAN THE OLD SYSTEM,
TIMES
NEW
THE OFFICE, GENERAL'S POSTMASTER
BY THE HONG KONG TELEPHONE
WITH ADVICE FROM THE TELEPRINTER WAS DESIGNED AND INSTALLED COMAPNY.
REPRESENTATIVES
FROM MORE
40
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR
THE
GIS NEWS
ROOM
IN
THAN 60 MEDIA ORGANISATIONS WITNESSED AN INAUGURATION CEREMONY JOINTLY OFFICIATED BY THE OF INFORMATION SERVICES, MRS IRENE YAU, AND THE MANAGING
AT HONG KONG TELEPHONE, BEACONSFIELD HOUSE THIS MORNING.
MR
BEFORE PRESSING
A
MIKE GALE,
PRESS
THIS KEYBOARD SWITCH TO TRANSMIT
LAUNCHING OF THE RELEASE TO SUBSCRIBERS OF THE NETWORK TO MARK THE
THE GATHERING THAT THE NEW SYSTEM NEW TELEPRINTER, MRS YAU TOLD REPRESENTED ANOTHER MILESTONE IN GIS SERVICE TO THE MEDIA.
AS SHE SAID. TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATION TO THE MEDIA AS QUICKLY
A RELIABLE AND POSSIBLE WAS AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF GIS SERVICE, AND EFFICIENT LINK WITH MEDIA ORGANISATIONS WAS A VITAL COG IN THE WHEEL.
MRS YAU SAID IN RECENT YEARS, TYPEWRITERS HAD DISAPPEARED AS · REPORTERS AND SUB-EDITORS THE NEWSROOM OF MOST NEWSPAPERS
CHINESE NEWSPAPER. WORKING IN FRONT OF COMPUTER TERMINALS. THE SHE SAID, WERE SWITCHING TO COMPUTER.
FROM
WERE
TOO,
LOOKING
NOTING THAT THE GIS TELEPRINTER SYSTEM HAD GROWN FROM A
TODAY, MRS YAU START OF SIX LINES 25 YEARS AGO TO OVER 60 SUBSCRIBERS
TELEPRINTER DEPARTMENT HAD BEEN
MODEST
AROUND FOR A NEW
SAID THE SYSTEM TO REPLACE THE EXISTING ONE.
SHE THANKED THE HONG KONG TELEPHONE AND THE POSTMASTER FOR DESIGNING AND INSTALLING THE SYSTEM.
DIRECTOR
OF HONG KONG
MR TELEPHONE,
GENERAL
THE MANAGING CONGRATULATING GIS ON, THE INAUGURATION OF THE NEW SYSTEM, OUTLINED THR
NEW NETWORK AND OF THE
SAID FEATURES"
MANY "REMARKABLE
POTENTIAL FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT.
BEE "WE HOPE TO
THE
GIS AND
NEWSPAPER
GALE, IN
IT
HAD
LINK
AND SYSTEM,
THE
DIRECT COMPUTER INTRODUCTION OF
TYPESETTING COMPUTER
BETWEEN INTRODUCTION OF OVERSEAS NEWS TRANSMISSION.
"AND ALREADY,