[GreenKeys] batcave

Wed Aug 5 13:07:27 EDT 2015

how  well  did the terminal kids  do   with sliding  down the pole?

In a message dated 8/4/2015 10:17:18 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
gil at baudot.net writes:

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_ (mailto:gil at baudot.net) 

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re:  [GreenKeys] tty-fi
From: _COURYHOUSE at aol.com_ (mailto:COURYHOUSE at aol.com) 
Date: Tue, August 04, 2015 5:04  pm
To: _gil at baudot.net_ (mailto:gil at baudot.net) , _mail at studio8h.com_ 
(mailto:mail at studio8h.com) 
Cc:  _greenkeys at mailman.qth.net_ (mailto: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_ (mailto: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_ (mailto:gil at baudot.net) 

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:  tty-fi
From: Studio8H <_mail at studio8h.com_ (mailto:mail at studio8h.com) >
Date: Tue, August 04, 2015  11:49 am
To: _gil at baudot.net_ (mailto: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_ (mailto:gil at baudot.net) 

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