[GreenKeys] batcave

Wed Aug 5 08:30:22 EDT 2015

Thanks for sharing the story! Loved it.

From: Gil Smith 
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 1:17 AM
To: COURYHOUSE at aol.com ; mail at studio8h.com 
Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net 
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] batcave

Hey Ed:  Hmm.  Yes, a batcave would be a place where such a tty-fi gizmo would find utility.  I'll just leave the details to speculation for now.

Speaking of the batcave, Bruce Wayne was on the local news a couple of months ago, when a news chopper caught sight of him driving his Batmobile around Phoenix.

For those of you newer to greenkeys, you don't know the story:  it's true -- I have seen his Batmobile.  In fact, he has a complete Batcave!

He is a great guy, by the name of Charles Keller (alias Bruce Wayne) -- a guy who made a nice business in investing or such, started a nice family with a couple of young kids, and then he got very, very ill.  He felt blessed to survive his illness, and then decided to dedicate his life to helping terminally-ill children and their families.  He bought a Batmobile, a Batcycle, a Parachute-Recovery van, a Batman Limo, and oodles of 1960's-vintage electronics for outfitting his Batcave.  He got a rotating turntable on which to park the Batmobile in the Batcave.  He found a fellow to help make a Bat-Reactor (lights and subwoofer sounds worthy of Disney), others who brought life to the vintage electronic gear, and some guy who provided a Bat-Teletype machine.  He secured a spot in a Phoenix industrial park, and built his Batcave. 

Imagine for a moment that you are a terminally-ill child who got a special invite to "Wayne Industries," which really means nothing to you at this point.  When you walk in the door, you are in Bruce Wayne's study, nicely wood paneled and all.  Flip up the head of the Shakespeare statue to reveal the big green pushbutton, and press it to open the secret sliding door to the Batcave.  There are two poles;  you need to slide down a pole to enter the cave.  Once inside, you see oodles of equipment -- flashing lights, beeping, spinning...and then it starts:   the big Bat-Reactor starts a slow wind up of flashing lights and uber-low-freq audio until all the cave lights turn on.  There it sits -- rotating slowly on the turntable -- the Batmobile.  Holy Smoke Batman!

The Batcave is dedicated to the first child, 3-year-old Colten Cowell.  Many dozens of very special kids have been through the Batcave since.  They all get a key to the Batmobile, so they can come drive it when they get their license.  Most of them are no longer with us.

http://tinyurl.com/batcave2013

https://coltencowellfoundation.org/hero-for-a-day

In 2012, Charles contacted me about perhaps adding a Teletype machine to the Batcave, to print out messages for the kids.  I just happened to have a spare M15 I had restored, and I built a custom box to drive it, with a clear cover to see the electronics inside, a vintage vacuum-fluorescent-display for text prompts, and a big pushbutton that let the kids select a message to print.  There were pre-programmed Gotham City emergency messages, and even a message that printed out a Batman head in RTTY-Art.

The Batcave is still a very busy place.

gil smith, AF7EZ
greenkeys moderator
gil at baudot.net

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  Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] tty-fi
  From: COURYHOUSE at aol.com
  Date: Tue, August 04, 2015 5:04 pm
  To: gil at baudot.net, mail at studio8h.com
  Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net

  return of the  batcave controller  but  enhanced Gil?

  Ed#

  In a message dated 8/4/2015 1:35:35 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, gil at baudot.net writes:
    Hi Dan:

    Someone did read that far into my email -- well I'll be!

    Yeah, tty-fi should be kinda self-explanatory.  I'll post updates when things are a bit further along, but, yes, I am working on a new gizmo some folks might like.

    gil

    gil smith, AF7EZ
    greenkeys moderator
    gil at baudot.net

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      Subject: tty-fi
      From: Studio8H <mail at studio8h.com>
      Date: Tue, August 04, 2015 11:49 am
      To: gil at baudot.net

      Gil:

      Devoured your Baudot algorithm on Greenkeys.
      Some of us read every word you write.

      I will be your first customer or beta tester if you wish, if "tty-fi” is what it alludes to being.

      Dan Beach
      KD4WLI 

      For those few folks who are still reading this far into one of my emails, I have actually dug out this old code for a new pcb project -- not ready for announcement yet, but I call it "tty-fi"

      gil smith, AF7EZ
      greenkeys moderator
      gil at baudot.net

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