[GreenKeys] Teletypes!

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Gideon:

That's an interesting question.  In the 1960s I used a model 33ASR that had a 
telephone modem on the right panel for accessing dial up time sharing 
computers.  I'm sure a pair of these could talk to each other (maybe after 
fiddling with the settings).  Also see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy#Telex

Back in the 1970s big companies would have a phone number and a TELEX number. 
To have a TELEX machine was expensive since it needed a leased line.  By the 
1980 the TELEX gave way to phone line based TWX.  I worked for a company in 
Sunnyvale, Calif. area code (408) and we had a TWX machine.  About that time a 
popular movie was "War Games" where a boy's computer dials every number in the 
(408) area code looking for computers (which look like TWX machines).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

Our secretary told me she would get funny messages about playing games.  Since 
I had seen the movie told her to let me know immediately if that happened 
again.  When the caller was on line I dictated this message to her:
Would you like to play a game of:
1) tic-tac-toe
2) checkers
3) chess
4) Global Thermonuclear War

But what I haven't seen is a computer-internet interface that would look at the 
Subject line of email and for example feed all those with exactly [GreenKeys] 
to the Teletype.  And of course allow you to compose a message and send it back 
to:  greenkeys at mailman.qth.net

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
http://www.precisionclock.com


Gideon Marcus wrote:
> Hello all.  I found this group through a link in Wikipedia.
> I'm an aficionado of all things older and electronic, from computers to 
> radios.  The other day I got to thinking that it would be inordinately 
> cool to have a teletype set up in my house linked up to teletypes in 
> other houses/offices.  Sure, I could use e-mail or the telephone or 
> faxes to keep in touch, but there's something immediate about the 
> clackityclack of news at your teleprinter.
> 
> Does anyone here know any way to make such a set up a reality in this 
> day and age?
> 
> Gideon Marcus
> fagin at earthlink.net
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