[GreenKeys] The Old and The New

[George B. Hutchison]

GreenKeyers - - -

This is an age wherein we should really roll with the flow of times and
technology, and use the best of all worlds in order to attain a goal.

I have indeed been using a computer, or actually, two computers, in
order to afford some manner of a signal source for you guys with the old
"mechanicals" a means whereby you can hear and see the old hummers do
their thing. There is no way I could manage to produce a 24/7 data
stream without computers. .

Gil Smith has expended hundreds, if not thousands of hours, in getting
his "TTY-Connect" system engineered so that the old can interface with
the new, bi-directionally, I might add.

Brian Beezley wrote "RITTY" so that there would be a demodulation and
keying system emulating the best of the whole spectrum of terminal
units, from the W2PAT up through the HAL and/or Universal 8000s,
Dovetrons, etc.

Irv Hoff was indeed a visionary when he not so slowly began to create
the bridges which permitted the past and present (the future, back then)
to co-mingle.

Paper, Tape and ribbons are no longer items which can be readily
purchased at any office supply store.

I love the smell of the hot oil and the clatter of the clunkers. I also
am dazzled when some clever program can dig intelligence out of what to
me is white noise.

I don't care at all for the spiffy logging programs, automated
contesting, and the rabble that seems to appear regularly when someone
decides to have some manner of "test".

But I don't begrudge them doing it, either. What is hot dogs for one is
caviar to someone else.

The tone of the past few sets of GreenKeys comments is not a little bit
polarizing. I think it would just be best to let those who want to do it
with glass, and those who feel that machines are the true essence of
teletype, do what they will without any inference that any particular
way is inferior to another.

I use both, and will continue to do so.

'Nuff Said..

George - W7TTY