[GreenKeys] Showcasing TTYs

[Paul Heller]

Nice. I'm glad to read this.

I offered to do a talk on teletypes for our local ham club. Absolutely no interest. They are interested in SDR, MOTOTRBO, Arduinos, etc. The Denver area sure is a wasteland for electronics and also for anything retro. No retro computer clubs, no electronics stores. It can get rather depressing at times!

Oh well.

Paul
W2TTY

> On Jan 15, 2015, at 5:15 PM, Paul Heller <phesopheon at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Nice. I'm glad to read this.
> 
> I offered to do a talk on teletypes for our local ham club. Absolutely no interest. They are interested in SDR, MOTOTRBO, Arduinos, etc. The Denver area sure is a wasteland for electronics and also for anything retro. No retro computer clubs, no electronics stores. It can get rather depressing at times!
> 
> Oh well.
> 
> Paul
> W2TTY
> 
>> On Jan 15, 2015, at 4:45 PM, Steve Garrison <steve.n4tty at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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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