[GreenKeys] younger generation greenkeyers ?

[Steve Ripper]

Pete:

My daughter Emily (10 years old) uses my model 33 every day. She knows to
load Heavy Metal and prints out the daily Reuters "Today In History" and the
local 10 day weather forecast. My son Ryan (6 years old) will sit a watch
the model 28 hammer away all day if I don't make him do something else. I
also let him help with the maintenance. He like to find the oiling points on
the various diagrams. He now knows how to put the few drops of oil required
on the easy to see and reach locations. I sure would like to find a way for
the machines to be more interactive with a PC so they can use them as an
input device and not just a printer. I was recently out bid on a complete
PDP 11/45 system located in Wisconsin. We all could have had a lot fun with
that.

During this past June, I had my 17 foot enclosed trailer setup for the ARRL
Field Day operations. This year I put a model 33 and 28 in the trailer along
with all the other radio gear and had them running most of the time. I don't
believe there was a single person that stopped by to see the remote setup
that was not hypnotized by the Teletype's. I know how to use these machines
with radios and Heavy Metal and copying ITTY etc, but my knowledge is
limited regarding how to use these machines more interactively with a PC or
other devices. My experience so far has been if you can get these kids in
front of these machines it sure does spark an interest.  

Cheers,
 
Steve Ripper
steveripper at comcast.net
Mobile: 248-787-0705

-----Original Message-----
From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Pete Lancashire
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 3:37 PM
To: greenkeys
Subject: [GreenKeys] younger generation greenkeyers ?

On the 5 hours drive back from Georges and from other conversations with
friends
curious  how many under 25 or 30 green-keys (keyers ?) there are and
can anything be done
to interest the teens or even younger ?

I've had two teens totally go nuts over watching a 35 do its thing and
one at least said it
helped him decide to go into engineering, one win.

the other though I had was one of those two sides of a coin. There's
still a lot of Teletype
stuff out there, but an awful lot is just getting trashed as dad or
uncle die off and the
kids just call the junk man. This could have easily happed the latest
pile George was
given the opportunity to rescue. On the flip side there are less and
less of those interested.

Oh well .. just some thoughts on if  can or should be done

BTW Thanks to George I now have the means to do what John Nagle did, A strip
printer that what looks like with a little work will fit in a glass
box and be ready for demo
next year.

Except for once owning a 19 that was lost in a fire, which other then
minor adjustment
this will my first pre 28/35 Teletype I've worked on .. be ready for
questions !!!

-pete
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