[GreenKeys] ITTY

[George B. Hutchison]

Some very influential people have convinced me to restart ITTY.

ITTY is now up and running. Autostart and national will soon follow 
suit.

ITTY is not as glorious as many RTTY  or other data/RTTY management 
programs, but it runs and runs well.

We are very fortunate to have Bill Bytheway as the software 
mastermind for the system.

Many do not know this, but the original system we use was started 
back in 1998 when the experimental RTTY broadcasts were being run. 
It is older software that has been improved and modified to perform 
the ITTY tasks.

Bill was the first to figure out how to get the RS-232 ports in XP 
to run at low speeds with the different data and stop bits and baud 
rates used in teletype transmission.

It really takes a crew to run it. For that be ever thankful to Wayne 
LeTourneau, Tom Tillson, and Don House who are pretty damned good 
news ferrets and have put literally thousands of hours over the past 
eight years or so to bring everyone interested material for their 
machines to print.

For those who might be interested in joining I urge you to stay 
interested, but wait a few weeks as we are in the process of making 
things simpler for those interested but are bewildered by the 
apparent complexities of the current system.

Bill is taking a break to try and reunite a group of people who have 
drifted apart.

Steve Jones, W0TTY,  is going to assist in making the various system 
address translations into what will become an easier system for the 
software intimidated to comprehend and utilize.

When he is back from his sojurn to California, Bill, Steve, and I 
will meet at some manner of gin mill or bawdy house to synchronize 
the implimentation of the improvements.

Stay tuned, but there will be no film from the bawdy house, just 
some easier to comprehend and use software.

Enjoy,

George - W7TTY - ITTY Central