[GreenKeys] FWD: Ransom Slayton

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      RANSOM D SLAYTON  10 Mar 1917 01 Sep 1998 (V) 60025 (Glenview, Cook, 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Haynes" <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
To: <gil at baudot.net>
Cc: "Gunther" <stocks23 at bellsouth.net>; "greenkeys" 
<greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 4:13 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] FWD: Ransom Slayton


> Gil, Ran Slayton is the narrator of the Teletype Museum tour videotape/DVD
> for which you still owe me a copy of the good scans of the slides, nag
> nag.
>
> I worked under his at Teletype circa 1965.  He has indeed passed on -
> I don't now quite when, but it was before I left California in 1998.
> Believe he has descendants still living in the Chicago area.
>
> Someone who may be in contact with the descendants is Warren Foxwell,
> whose email is or was wfoxwell at devry.edu, who lives in Park Ridge IL
> and is a teacher at DeVry.
>
> Another former employee who worked under him is Fred Mocking,
> fmocking at earthlink.net living in Skokie.
>
> There are a couple of documents of Teletype history by Ran which I
> transcribed, and by now they are all over the Internet, or I could send
> you copies.
>
> "The Early Years of Teletype Development - A Patent History"
> "History of Telegraphy from the Teletype Museum" which is the script
> for the VCR/DVD slide show.
>
> Being an IEEE member I was drafted to do some IEEE work while Ran was my
> boss.  This involved developing a list of key words and assigning key
> words from the list to papers published in the IEEE Transactions on
> Communication Systems during the period when Ran was editor.
>
> Jim Haynes
>
>
> jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, gil at baudot.net wrote:
>
>> Hi Gunther:
>>
>> Good to hear from you.  I am forwarding your email on to an email list
>> called greenkeys -- if anyone knows about Ransom Slayton it would be
>> someone in this group.  I seem to recall that he is no longer with us,
>> but do not know that for certain.  Anyone?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> gil
>>
>>
>> gil smith
>> greenkeys moderator
>> gil at baudot.net
>> www.baudot.net
>> Vaux Electronics:  480-354-5556
>>
>>
>>
>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>> Subject: Ran Slayton
>>>> From: "Gunther" <stocks23 at bellsouth.net>
>>>> Date: Sun, January 11, 2009 11:20 pm
>>>> To: <gil at vauxelectronics.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I noticed your name in a text re the Teletypewriter written by Ransom 
>>>> Slayton.  Ran and I worked together in the IEE in the 60's and I lost 
>>>> track  of him.  I assume he probably passed on but am not sure.  If you 
>>>> know if he still lives, I would like to establish contact again. We 
>>>> were very good friends at that time but lost contact when we moved to 
>>>> Florida.
>>>>
>>>> Gunther Karger
>>>> www.guntherkarger.com
>>>> gunther at ieee.org
>>
>>
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