[GreenKeys] Showcasing TTYs

[Steve Garrison]

This past weekend I took a  28KSR and a TT-76 to a local ham radio club TechFest.  All sorts of displays around ham radio, but quite a few just in the technical arena and not specific to ham radio.  While my display could be considered RTTY I wasn't connected to any radio equipment.  I demonstrated the "Marriage of Old and New Technology with the Original Text Machines."  Using John Nagle's software I was sending and receiving text messages with the 28KSR to the amazement of several hundred attendees.  And with the TT-76 I was punching tape with "eyeball" character banner tapes (again using the Nagle software as the basis - I added the code to produce the eyeball characters).

The youngsters got the biggest kick out of the machines having not been a witness to so many moving mechanical parts in one place.  The older crowd was mostly saying "Wow what memories these things bring back!"

And a Maker's group wants one of the TT-76s for their Maker Space display.

Thanks John for some great software! 

Steve G./N4TTY
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