[GreenKeys] Interesting modem for a teletype up on

Peter Gottlieb nerd at verizon.net
Sun Feb 13 17:37:18 EST 2011


I had a 33 which had the slashed letter O as well.  It had been given to 
me by WU but they said it wasn't theirs.  It did have an A-J acoustic 
modem but it was so long ago I can't remember if the unit looked like 
the one pictured or not.

Peter


On 2/13/2011 5:34 PM, AA8K73 GMail wrote:
> In the 1960's when I was filling out coding
> sheets for keypunchers to punch my cards for
> programs, I always found it frustrating to
> have to slash my ohs and not slash my zeros.
> It was opposite to all my radio experience,
> and required constant attention while coding.
>
> I was very happy when slashed ohs went away.
>
>
> Mike - AA8K
>
>
> On 02/13/2011 04:09 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
>
>> You can also see the slashed-oh and unslashed-zero on the keyboard which
>> is a little unique I think.
>>
>> I didn't see that configuration in a recent document that went around
>> showing which companies certain keyboards were built for.
>>
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