[GreenKeys] Lend your NE teleprinter, to honor Lorenz at MIT

[Bill McKenna]

Hello GreenKeys,

Writing on behalf of the Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
department in the Green Building at MIT, *l**ooking for an ASCII teletype
nearby,* to participate in an upcoming symposium.

This year was Ed Lorenz' centenary
<https://eapsweb.mit.edu/news/2017/centenary-ed-lorenz>. A two-day event, On
Chaos and Climate
<https://calendar.mit.edu/event/mit-chaos-and-climate>, February
1-2, 2018, is being organized to honor the lives and scientific
contributions of Lorenz + colleague Jule Charney.

I'm coordinating a computing performance with a LittleGP-30
<http://www.e-basteln.de/lgp30/lgp30_intro.html> (an excellent redux of the
computer Lorenz was using in 1961,) and we'd like to demonstrate the
teleprinting interface in some respect, as the print-outs are critical to
the story.

*Looking for an ASCII teletype**, to participate in this performance, such
as the model 33 ASR........*a functional paper tape I/O, and a
collector/operator willing to lend their machine/experience, would be least
pessimum.


Originally, Royal McBee's LGP-30 ran with the Friden Flexowriter. The
sounds of operation are wonderful (Flexowriter in LGP-30 Concerto
<https://youtu.be/FGDGpCWWoMs?t=4m23s>) (Warming up the LGP-30
<https://youtu.be/7WaYYNUCWMY>), thus the hope to find a well-maintained
teletype we can connect with for the performance.

Might one of you be in the Massachusetts or Northeast area? We'd be
assembling & testing the whole set-up mid-January to prepare for the
symposium start of February. We can help with costs of transit, funds to
make it possible.

Thanks for the read,
Bill
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