[GreenKeys] So what else can I do with this?

[Steve Garrison]

And that demo was a roaring success thanks to John's help in getting me to understand how all the pieces fit together.

I had several hundred folks witness the "amazing" demo of sending and receiving a text message from a "Teletype" machine.  The parents were just as excited about it as the kids were.  And the majority of the ones that took the opportunity to send a text message to their own phone and then reply so they could see it print on the TTY had never even seen a teletype machine.  They were all absolutely amazed at all the moving parts and the fact that it was "repaired" if it broke and not just thrown away.

I'd like to add the i-telex system to my demo and have several of the greenkeyers do the same so we can all get together to support each other if one of us puts on a demo of the i-telex system.

Steve G./N4TTY
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On Apr 4, 2016, at 01:24, John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> wrote:

>> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 23:42:38 -0500
>> From: "drlegendre ."<drlegendre at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [GreenKeys] So what else can I do with this?
>> 
>> I've pretty much done what I need to do with my M15 / C-64 project, but I
>> still have this M15 sitting in the shop.
>> 
>> So just what the heck do you guys do with these old girls? I've heard tell
>> of Internet TTY and so forth, but how would that be approached?
>> 
>> Much as I love it, it would be good if I could put it to some use, so it's
>> not just sitting collecting dust, you know? If these machines are like most
>> others, inertia is among their worst enemies..
> 
> 
> Many of you have already seen our steampunk telegraph office:
> 
>    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F_hhp4nCHE
> 
>        www.aetherltd.com
> 
> Text a message in, and it prints it up as a telegram.  We even have costumed telegraph messagers.
> 
> Setting this up is kind of complicated, because it takes a hosting
> account, server side software, a Twilio SMS to HTTP account, and
> "baudotrss" software on the computer connected to the Teletype.
> But Steve Garrison did it recently for a demo.
> 
> (Somebody really should do SMS to Teletype as a phone app.)
> 
> Any RSS feed can easily be printed.  We usually follow Reuters,
> because their feed has complete sentences. AP cuts off news summaries
> after some arbitrary length. I have a Model 14 tape printer at home
> which prints Reuters news items as they come in, powering down when
> there's no new traffic.  That's a good use for a Model 15, and
> "baudotrss" or Heavy Metal can support that.
> 
>                    John Nagle
> 
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