[GreenKeys] Leigh Branded KSR33 Restoration

[Dave Hunter]

Hi Christian:

On 22 May 2011 at 17:05, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:

> Dave: Nice KSR. Though, mine only has the cover with Leigh
> branding. The faceplate at the front of the base on mine is
> the standard silver with black lettering Teletype Corp.
> plate. I really wish I could find a cover that would
> match... or a Leigh faceplate. Either one would be welcome,
> so it's not the strange mismatched state it's in right now
> (haha).

Small chance. Mine was given me first in 1985 by the local 
telephone company. There might be a very small chance they 
could put you in touch with one of the techs who worked on 
them back then, and a smaller chance one of them might have 
retained a faceplate... Read the whole story on my page - 
mine went into limbo for 25 years after I loaned it to a 
friend to use as a printer, and after he was done with it 
it was stored in his leaky barn for the next 20 years.... 
It needed quite a restoration! 
 
> By the way, have you considered hooking up one (or all) of
> your ASCII machines to a PC running a minicomputer
> simulator? That's my major plan for my KSR-33, connect it to
> my PC and have it run as the operator's console on one of
> DEC's minicomputers (XVM/RSX on the PDP-15 provides a
> wonderful text dump for any ASCII Teletype; and UNIX V6 on a
> simulated PDP-11/45 is good to let people try out as it is
> familiar enough to many people).

That is what I used to use my KSR for back in the 80's. not 
for a DEC (though I worked on PDP-8's in the 70's), but as 
a printer first for a Timex-Sinclair, then as a printer for 
my Vic-20. I do have them all operating using "Heavy Metal" 
including both the Baudot and Ascii machines. This is what 
was feeding them in the videos....

Dave

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