[GreenKeys] ITTY source...

[Roy Morgan]

On Mar 15, 2014, at 4:37 PM, Kenneth Gartland <trnsrme at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all...
>  
> Was wondering if I can be pointed in the rite direction
> to find the ITTY web site address...I had it on an older
> computer, (Long gone Win 98 days!), wud like to be able to receive
> the TTY broadcasts again…


Ken,

This is the latest announcement I see (thanks Tom for posting a reply before I could write all the stuff below).


From:  Til128 at aol.com
Hi all:
 
Just a reminder that we will be doing some over strike pix this Saturday, 3/15 at 1200 EST.
 
We will be at the usual spot of:
 
<HTTP://209.180.212.65:8030/listen.pls>
 
We will start with the rabbit pix that was corrupted last week.
 
See you there.
 
TT

Note that in the above URL, the web site designator is in digits.  Normally when you type in a common web site name (like google.com) a system “out there” called the domain name server “DNS” looks up the digital locator for you and sends your request off into the Internet to that computer.  The :8030 is called a “port” and the receiving computer knows from that how to handle your request.  Kinda like which door of an apartment building to go into.
 
> Second question, will RealPlayer program open it? I have
> Windows XP as the current OS.

Tom just reported yes, it will.  You will hear the TTY tones, and will need another program to make them into characters on your computer screen.  I have recently got FLdigi (which is available for my Mac computers) and it is supposed to do that (and way much more in the digital modes).

Note that (some of) the picture tapes that Tom sends out on Saturdays depend on “overstrike” to make a proper picture - this means that the carriage (on a real heavy metal machine) returns to the left margin without a line feed and another line of characters gets printed over top of the line just made.  This enables darker parts of the picture to be produced.  Playboy Miss January 1966 may not need that, but Snoopy with his Dinner Bowl might.

Alternatively (the “real” way), you feed the sound from your computer (earphone jack) out to a terminal unit and it runs the teletype machine (such as a much honored Model 15) and the machine clatters away happily.  This makes you happy.  I recommend it!

> I have also heard that Reuters has an RSS(?) feed that can be copied
> on PC'/s & teletype machines...
>  
> Not to be laughed out of the park, but what is an RSS feed, and how does one
> get it to work on the PC?

See this Wikipedia link:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS‎

I’m pretty ignorant on this topic but I think that the way it works is that when the sending site has something *they* think is interesting, it gets sent to you automagically.  Stand by for stuff coming in often or continuously.

Roy

Roy Morgan
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K1LKY Since 1958