[GreenKeys] Teletype Model 33 ASR vs. ASR33

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tony j. podrasky" <tony.podrasky at gmail.com>
To: "Wa3frp" <wa3frp at aol.com>
Cc: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Teletype Model 33 ASR vs. ASR33


> I'd like to know too.
>
> I came into the Teletype world with the words 15, 14, 
> 28-KSR and 28-ASR.
>
> The first time I heard someone say "blah blah blah ASR28 
> blah blah blah",
> I figured he's probably running up-side-down shift, too...
>
> I thought maybe he should be, like, burned at the stake 
> for that
> kind of blasphemy.
>
> Then I thought: *WWIHD?
>
> He'd probably say: "blessed are the ones on RTTY - whether 
> they say
> 33-ASR or ASR-33, for they are all brothers under the 
> Teletype.
>
> UE,
> W6ESE - tony
> NNNN
> CZCZ

    I worked for Hewlett-Packard about a million years ago 
when they first made computers. I worked on automated RF 
measuring systems. The terminal for the computer was a 
Teletype machine I always heard of as an ASR-33, it may have 
said that in the -hp- handbooks, not sure. It was not until 
I began to really research Teletype recently that I 
discovered that the nomenclature was wrong. Actually, at 
this late date I am not even sure if it was a 33 or 35, 
definitely not a 28.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com