[GreenKeys] Re: RTTY...TTY...TDD

[jsheetz]

Well
  As I get it the TTY term was actually the extension used for
RADIOTELETYPE (RTTY) for many years. When the hearing impaired started
to use them over the telephone lines they simply called them
PTTY'S for "pnoneteletypes". Obviously the word Teletype being
the actual name of the corporation that produced them was too long
a word for convenient use. Amateur operators always spoke of "RITTY"
as a way of pronouncing the "word". 
  Off hand I'm not aware of any coining of the word.
    Good question anyway.
     Thanks and good luck.
        John Sheetz, K2AGI
  p.s. I spent many hours helping install machines for the deaf.
Things have changed a lot since the beginning!!!
Of course the original acoustic coupler was designed by a deaf Ham,
Bob Weitbrecht, W6NRM, now a silent key.

gil smith wrote:
> 
> Hi Jay:
> 
> Well, that is a question for the tty folks on the greenkeys list:  anyone
> know when "TTY" was first coined?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> gil
> 
> At 06:50 am 7/17/03, you wrote:
> >Hello
> >
> >         This may seem like an odd request. I am from the deaf community
> > and on one of our chat groups, we have been arguing about when the term
> > "TTY" as opposed to teletype first came into use. Can you give us some
> > history on when "TTY" first was used? I seem to think it was at least
> > before or on about 1950 when they published RTTY Journal. Thank you.
> >
> >Cheers!
> >Jay Hall
> 
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