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

[Cory Heisterkamp]

Occasionally there's overlap between TTY collectors and Flexowriter
collectors...perhaps someone on the east coast has a good Flexo to loan?
They're self contained, and really no setup required. I'm in Iowa so that
rules me out.

The tape punch/readers on those are pretty bullet-proof, and the dramatic
swing of the type arms and visual movement of the carriage can't be
understated.

For the record, I had the pleasure of playing with the LGP-30 in that video
2 weeks ago over in Germany. As far as I know it's the only 100% working
unit in existence, with a couple semi-operational ones nipping at its
heels. -C

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Bill McKenna <wdmc at mit.edu> wrote:

> 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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