[GreenKeys] Teletypes in Portal 2

[Paul Heller]

It looked like a model 26 to me. 

Paul

> On Jul 11, 2017, at 8:59 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove <captainkirk359 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 11 July 2017 at 19:00, Jordan Spencer Cunningham <js at cunni.co> wrote:
>> It's a very interesting storyline as far as games go, but what
>> surprised me is that I found some teletypes in the bottommost condemned
>> testing area (circa ~1950s), four or five kilometers below the Earth's
>> surface.
>> 
> I'd be nice to get input from the rest of the list, but I think the
> Teletype they were going for in their model is based on the Model 15
> and related developments.
> 
> 
>> The closer to the surface you go, the newer the testing facilities are, and
>> the newer the technology in them becomes. Teletypes morphed into giant
>> mainframes with amber CRT terminals, which morphed into Apple ][-like
>> desktop computers with what appear to be 5-1/4-inch floppy drives. It's
>> always fun to see old technology portrayed in modern popular culture, even
>> if it's inaccurate or completely made up. Most players I'm sure have no clue
>> what these are, nor do they care. Those darn millennials [shakes cane at
>> passers by].
>> 
> Yeah, the 1970s Aperture labs, the computers seem to be hinting toward
> IBM mainframe design patterns especially from the late 7000 series and
> early System/360 eras. The tape drives are vaguely based on the IBM
> 7330, and the big CPU cabinets are reminiscent of the IBM 7090 series
> system units. The printer looks like a System/360-era 1403-N1, and the
> terminals though are much akin to a DEC VT240. (I think I know the
> reason that the company was doing terribly financially... mixing and
> matching hardware into a giant pile of "no".)
> 
> 1980s Aperture? I think the computers were more like the IBM PC than
> anything else.
> 
> 
>> The game designers either didn't realize or didn't care that they only put
>> 20 keys on their teletype model. I won't say I know for sure that there's
>> never been such a thing, but I highly doubt it.
>> 
> Reduced keyboard size? There's been machines like that, meet the
> M-130: <http://scz.bplaced.net/m130.html> Though the machine in that
> link specifically is a cipher machine, there was also a version made
> without the ciphering bits, which was the T-130.
> 
> It was used for sending numbers only weather reports.
> 
> 
> Also, I realized, more useful to any interested parties would be the
> English language page on it on the CryptoMuseum site:
> <http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/ussr/m130/index.htm>
> 
> 
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