[GreenKeys] A portable Baudot terminal

[Teletypeparts]

I have seen model 32 KSR's used for TTY for the deaf.  Acoustic coupler built right into the UCC-6 cover.  The state of Vermont had about 8 around the state.  They knew I was available to repair them, but they never broke down.  I only serviced one locally, lube and inspection.  

There was another 32 at Austine School for The Deaf in Brattleboro, VT.  I did service that one once as I remember.  

I also found one directly across the street from me when I first moved back to Rutland, VT from Kansas.  It was a model 15 with an acoustic coupler in an upstairs apartment.  A lot to carry to the second floor.  

All these machines are gone now as I guess I missed the chance to pick up some of them in the early 90's.  

73, 

Wayne
KB1FDW



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From: COURYHOUSE <COURYHOUSE at aol.com>
To: wa2hwj <wa2hwj at att.net>
Cc: greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>; jhhaynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
Sent: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 12:30 pm
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] A portable Baudot terminal


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 
 

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

NNNN




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