[GreenKeys] 232 COM port to TTY - Mighty-Mite to the rescue!

[Randy or Sherry Guttery]

Duncan M. Brown wrote:
> You can drive a AN/TGC-14 (TT-297, -298, -299) and probably the UGC-38,
> -40, -41 series "Mighty-Mites" all most directly from a computer's COM
> port; only one component is required!

Keep this up and you're going to give "big iron" a bad name! ;-)

I've always been intrigued with the Mites since I first saw one in 
Norfolk, VA in 1971.  I was looking for a 28, and heard about some guy 
who ran a communications shop in Norfolk who had some tty gear. He 
didn't have any 28s - but did have a couple of Mites, I was impressed 
with how small they were - and that "tuck away" keyboard was just super 
slick. Of course he wouldn't part with any of his, and it was a couple 
of years until I found my first 28.  Which was just as well - don't ask 
me how the heck I planned to move the thing as I moved five times during 
that time - and only had "military assistance" moving on the last one... 
a Mite would have been far more practical. But in the early 70s they 
just weren't that common (in civilian hands).

Never seen one "available" since... it's "second" on my wish list anyway 
(a Klein TT-179 or it's sibling being first).

Good info to know, though - a lot easier to carry to the computer than 
the 28!

best regards...
-- 
randy guttery

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