[GreenKeys] A portable Baudot terminal

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tty  for the  deaf - \
 
yes!  if only they had  a loop output!   the  ones  we have here   go right 
to an acoustic coupler.
this of course  could be added...
 
and yes...  we do have a collection of them here at the  museum  as 
telecommunications for the deaf is  one of our focus areas. ( and yes...  we are  
looking for more of them manuals  for them  pictures of  people using them ,  
reminisces  about the dawn of the deaf finally  being able to use the phone 
system. 
 
WE TAKE THIS SEGMENT OF HISTORY VERY SERIOUS!   communications  
accessibility is where it is at.
In addition we have a fair about of  material and hardware related to  
closed  and open captioning  both from the subscriber end and  the  Television 
studio end.
 
 
Would love to hear  from any of  you  with  similar involvement including 
those in the  late 60's and 70   that assisted in rebuilding  TTYs   for the  
Deaf.
 
Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC   _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  
 
 
In a message dated 1/25/2013 2:31:06 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
wa2hwj at att.net writes:

ZCZC

Well, this isn't exactly a graceful way to do it, but  it worked
for me...

I provided a 28 TTY for a movie ("American  Gangster" with Denzel 
Washington)
a few years ago and they wanted to be  able to send messages to it on the
fly. Usually I'd bring along a TD and  tape.
So I brought my laptop and a Dovetron ASCII-to-Baudot box (TBA-1000).  I set
the
laptop to 110 Baud ASCII and dumped it into the Dovetron. The  Dovetron then
outputted at 100 wpm Baudot.  Another way to do it is  with a Black Box CAP
which is a code converter. It does just about anything  in and anything
out...
they still sell them.  (By the way, the TTY  scene was cut from the movie...
but I had a great time and a  few  movie stars got to meet me.)

Finally, you could load in Heavymetal and  it would work OK, but not as
simply as the above stuff.  The good  thing, though, is that you can have
preload test messages in Heavymetal  (.txt files), ready to send.

Nothing beats a Fox  Box....!

Finally...has anyone ever tried to figure out how to use one  of the
"TTY for the deaf" terminals? They were originally Baudot.  

Jack  K0TTY

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