[GreenKeys] M35 in Southern New Hampshire (Craigslist, $1)

[tony.podrasky]

GA OMs;

When I worked for Data General Corp we used the 33-ASR
as a master console. Usually they didn't get that much
use - but when you had to load the binary tapes that took
AN HOUR, it was no surprise to anyone when the tape didn't
stop at the end of data - which meant that it took a parity
error and you had to run it again.

Although ONE parity error at 110 Baud for an HOUR sounds
like "so what!", well - the computer didn't think so - or
did the customer.

I'd clean the contacts, and sometimes that helped but more
often than not it was hit-or-miss.

Finally we had to swap it out.

I wound-up getting a close to brand-new 33-ASR that we
just couldn't get the reader to read a tape for an hour.

Of course, it broke my heart to have that 33-ASR in my
radio shack...

UE,
K2EAA - TONY
NNNN
ZCZC


On 11/06/2017 01:25 PM, Ralph Irish wrote:
> *Bob*
> *
> *
> *You might look at the two Teletypes, M33 and M35, and sort of equate
> them to a Ford Ranger pickup*
> *truck and a Ford F-250 pickup truck.  Both can haul some 'stuff', and
> top speed might not be*
> *greatly different between them.  The F-250 can haul more at any one
> time, than the Ranger.  Both*
> *can get one or two people from Point "A" to Point "B" in roughly the
> same time, on the same roads.*
> *The ride of the F-250 might be a bit smoother, but not much.*
> *
> *
> *The model 33 was jokingly called a "Mattel" Teletype when first
> introduced.  The Model 33 ASR could*
> *punch and read tapes, just like the Model 35.  The Model 35 is a well
> engineered, durable and tough*
> *machine.  Designed to have a much longer (better) MTBF than the 33.
>   The 33s were designed for light-*
> *duty service, although they surprised the hell out of some Teletype
> engineers.*
> *
> *
> *One of my friends who worked for Michigan Bell Telephone told me that
> the 32 and 33 models were *
> *designed to be 'throw aways', and likely not repaired.  At some point,
> however, requests started*
> *coming in from the field for 'repair parts' and replacement parts for
> them.  Some were not buying into*
> *the 'disposable' concept. *
> *
> *
> *There may be other opinions come in, but I think I covered things
> fairly well.  I used the Fords*
> *only because I am a Ford retiree.  Other brand names will provide the
> same analogy.*
> *
> *
> *I welcome comments.*
> *
> *
> *73,*
> *
> *
> *Ralph - W8ROI*
> *
> *
> *
> *
> *On Nov 6, 2017, at 2:26 PM, Robert Nickels wrote:*
> *
> *
>> *On 11/6/2017 12:56 PM, Ralph Irish wrote:
>> *
>>> **If it is within your reach to visit or purchase*
>>> *
>> *
>> Thanks for the explanation, Ralph, that hadn't occurred to me at all.
>>    I'm in IL and it would be vastly pressing my luck to even suggest
>> one of my New England buddies haul such a thing to Dayton next year
>> ;-)   But now I'll know how to act if something should come up on
>> Craigslist somewhere close to my neighborhood.
>>
>> As long as I have floor for dopey questions, let me ask one more:
>> Why is the model 35 so much bigger than the 33?    What's in all that
>> extra space, as it looks like the same tape punch/reader is on the
>> left, just not as compactly mounted, and I'd guess the blank panel on
>> the right could house a modem and dial keypad.  But the ASR-33 had all
>> that stuff in the much narrower form factor - what am I missing?
>>
>> 73, Bob W9RAN
>>
>> *
>
>
>
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