[GreenKeys] RE: GreenKeys Digest, Vol 45, Issue 27 RE: ribbon revival & reinking still viable!

[David I. Emery]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:20:26AM -1000, Dan Durgin wrote:
> 
> I reinked ribbons on teletype machines for about 10 years back in the '80's.
> Had several 28asr's running, 43's, and a TI 820asr, back when you could get
> AP and UPI, etc., on the satellites.

	Not that you'd want it in this Internet age with much if not
most of the wire service content available on web sites (of major
newspapers amongst others), but AP and UPI have not disappeared from
satellite - just no longer transmitted in analog FSK format on
FM-FDM-SSB...

	But if one was determined... and suitably piratical...


-- 
  Dave Emery N1PRE/AE, die at dieconsulting.com  DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493
"An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable weatherbeaten
'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted pole - in 
celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be now either."