[GreenKeys] iTelex Hardware

Tue May 16 03:41:38 EDT 2017

Hi All

Just to confuse things : I designed a system "competing" with i-Telex, and 
this system emulates the european Gentex system, whicdh was the system used 
to transmit telegrams (in Europe anyway) until it was knocked out by telefax 
etc.
My system is strictly local (see later), supporting any number of 
teleprinters (depending on number of COM ports), any speed, any character 
set, etc.
This system, programmed in Delphi and running on any Windows system, is in 
use at the danish IT museum (www.datamuseum.dk) and the Cold 'War museum at 
Stevnsfort, a fort overlooking one of the water ways between the Baltic and 
Atlantic.

I am presently talking to Fred to see how we can integrate tings. This would 
accomplish a few nice things : > 1 teleprinter, any speed (supposing the COM 
port supports it), any character set, support of kryptographic systems 
(under development)

There are also a few other niceties, which I would love to speak about in a 
new thread.

All the best
Nico OZ1BMC
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  Sendt: 15. maj 2017 21:13
  Emne: Re: [GreenKeys] iTelex Hardware

  Just  to explain the idea and  philosophy of i-TELEX.
  We did not want to build just a teletype to internet interface .
  Rather than we wanted a kind of real Telex network hardware emulation 
which was a basic means of business communication over here in Europe until 
the 1990s.
  Since most of the teleprinter/teletype collectors do not stop collecting 
after they got their first machine we wanted to make the system modular in 
order to connect almost as many machines as possible.  Some of us have 
around 10 machines connected....
  The i-Telex system is actually a real Telex central office / exchange in 
shoe box size... with external connections via internet to other 
'exchanges'.
  Old original Telex numbers can still be used.

  Henning DF3OE

  i-Telex : 55571 and 92612

  Am 15.05.2017 20:45 schrieb "Jordan Spencer Cunningham" <js at cunni.co>:

    For months I've been researching other people's projects (such as the 
Aetheric Message Machine or this one: 
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8478520) and looking into how I might 
build and program a Pi (or a Pi behind an Arduino) to interface my teletypes 
to modern technology. Having done the research and looked at parts and what 
it might take to program a Pi to do so, I eventually discovered i-Telex by 
way of a YouTube video. I've decided to drop the entire Pi idea because, 
while it would be a fun and worthy project, I agree with Steve-- it would 
take a lot of time and effort  I don't have figuring a lot of things out, 
especially in software. I'm personally more interested in getting connected 
to something that works than reinventing the wheel. If anyone does decide to 
go the route of the Pi, though, I'd be interested in helping build and 
troubleshoot an interface. I would just rather not be the main trailblazer 
when something already exists that more or less does it all and my time is 
limited as is. I did have some fun ideas I wanted to incorporate in my Pi 
interface to include some kind of prefix code that one could type in from 
the teletype that the Pi would be programmed to intercept and turn into 
ACSII or even UTF-8 output, which would make connecting to modern *nix 
systems a lot easier when one wants to use a baudot-encoded machine.

    --Jordan

    On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:47 AM, Jeffrey D Angus <jdangus at att.net> 
wrote:

      On 5/15/2017 1:35 AM, Fred Sonnenrein wrote:

        That's it in a few words. Maybe i missed something

      Thank you Fred, I think you got everything.

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