[GreenKeys] Teletypes (and more) at #Unix50

[Hugh Pyle]

Nokia Bell Labs hosted an event at Murray Hill NJ to celebrate the 50th
anniversary of Unix.  The Vintage Computer Federation was invited to
exhibit, so I brought along a couple Model 33 Teletypes and a DECwriter,
and others exhibited various Unix machines ranging including AT&T 3B1 and
3B2, DEC PDP-11, IBM Portable PC and RS6000, Apple Lisas, Commodore 64,
Tandy and Sun boxes, several Raspberry Pi family devices, and more.

One of the Teletypes was connected to a Raspberry Pi, and used to print
ASCII art and punch tape as well as just to play around on the Bash shell.
The other one was connected to the PC running Xenix (although mechanical
teething probelms interrupted the fun later in the day... this is a
newly-refurbished unit and still has several gunky deteriorated springs
that need to be replaced).

The attendees varied from old-timer Bell Labs luminaries (Aho, Weinberger,
Kernighan, Stroustrop, and more) to students.  The younger ones were
universally enthralled to get hands-on with "a real Unix terminal".

Some photos here:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EH1FbcwQCyFktcGV9

Enjoy!
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