[GreenKeys] Heavy Metal Usage in the Deaf Community

[Jim Haynes]

A good book on the topic is "A Phone of Our Own : The Deaf Insurrection
Against Ma Bell" by Harry G. Lang.  One thing that limited usage of TTD
in the early period was the limited supply of Teletype machines; and
the deaf people competed with radio amateurs for them.  There was an
organization Teletypewriters for the Deaf, Inc. headquartered in
Indianapolis circa 1974 that helped connect deaf people with machines.

Harry Lang is probably not on the greenkeys list, and I don't see him in
the Rochester Institute of Technology directory, but I see there is a
Donna Lange listed in connection with the National Technical Institute
for the Deaf dalndp at rit.edu

A lot of interesting stuff was done, such as a system which stored news
on paper tape and could be dialed up from anywhere in the U.S. to have
the contents printed.