[GreenKeys] AP Model 15 longevity

[Larry Tighe]

Hi Sheldon et. al.,

Here's the skinny on AP today.  We have a small, about 24 inches, sat dish 
for AP.  That goes to a receiver and what looks like a "modem" fed by the 
rcvr.  The modem connects to other  PC's.  We had to go find the AP 
receiver....it's burried under junk behind a desk in the newsroom!!!

The PC's are dedicated to AP.  The screen has a menu listing all the current 
stories.  They highlight the story/stories they want and tell it to print. 
It prints on a normal desktop printer.

There is no more printer running day and nite.  All the studios have that AP 
screen and can pick and choose what they want to print.  EVERYTHING IS 
PRINTED IN CAPS.

I'll get some pix of the AP equipment and have my son post it on a URL later 
today.

Nobody can remember the last time an AP person was here!!  Best part of this 
is the boxes of bi-fold paper ... some go home with me :>)

Lar

Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] AP Model 15 longevity


> Larry,
>
> I wonder if the dataline is really ASCII or is it
> still Baudot or 5 level.
>
> Well, let me ask it this way, is the text upper and
> lower case, or just upper case?  If upper and lower case,
> then it can't be 5 level.  Since the AP had the coding
> in place for years to convert upper and lower case from the
> data terminals to the 5 level stream for the older 5 level
> machine population, one might think they have maintained
> the 5 level coding, but I am really making a guess.
>
> Is the feed for your printer a satellite feed or is it
> a phone line feed?  If phone line, what is the modem?
> Self contained in the Extel or the older external
> Lenkurt 25 A system?
>
> Just curious, or nosey from a technical standpoint!
>
> 73
> Sheldon