[GreenKeys] What brought you here?

[Andy KN4UCL]

Apologies for the late reply to this - and thank you for the "what brought
you here" stories!

As a school kid I had access to a teletype Model 33 connected to a local
college DECsystem 10. Since then my teletype interests remained well and
truly dormant for a good few decades until I stumbled across Oscar
Vermeulen's PDP-8 simulator (on Hackaday) a few years ago.  I finally took
the plunge and grabbed an (eBay) ASR 33 which Wayne Durkee very patiently
helped me nurse back to full health, followed by a real beauty that Wayne
himself did a complete restoration of. Both of these machines now merrily
chatter away with my PiDP8, PiDP11/70 (another Oscar creation), and also
some other excellent CP/M replicas.

Of course, that should've been the end of it.  But, could I go a little
further ... perhaps some ITTY, news feeds, telex ....and possibly get my
SIMH PDP-4 talking to something more interesting than PuTTY?

So after a few abortive attempts to acquire a local Model 28, Steve
Garrison invited me over to check out his not inconsiderable stockpile of
model 28s in Georgia.  And what a trip that was! I learned a lot -
including that the ASR 28 fits PERFECTLY in the back of a Yukon :-)  I was
also priviliged to meet Nick (N0NCQ.)  We had a lot of fun!  I returned to
S Florida fully inspired and generously laden with all manner of teletype
goodness.

Right now, my beautiful metallic blue-green M28 is still "in progress"
https://sites.google.com/view/28asr  but on track for operational greatness
this year.  Especially grateful to Steve's patience with me as my tech
skills <cough> are somewhat thin on the ground.

Greenkeys is a great place.  Love the discussions and the history!

Thanks everyone and stay safe.

Andy
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 1:45 PM Jeff G <jeffg at junknet.net> wrote:

> I'm sure this has been done in the past, but figured I'd ask as I'm a bit
> of a newb here and it would give me something to read. What got you into
> Teletypes, and ultimately to Greenkeys? Can be a simple answer or a short
> story!
>
> For me...I always had an interest in them, and I'm into vintage computing
> amongst many many many other hobbies. I acquired a Teletype Model 32 and
> HAL ST-6 last year, and its been a learning experience to learn about the
> history, how they work, current loops, baudot, etc. I'd love to get a 33
> some day, and (hopefully) have lines on a couple older models as well now,
> as I LOVE the old/steampunk/electromechanical aspect of them, and have
> several older items displayed in my living room, like an Edison cylinder
> player (Edison Triumph). That said I'm probably a youngin at 42.
>
> I'm also a new-ish ham (licensed in 2016) and definitely want to try RTTY,
> outside of a contest. Also just before the s--- hit the fan, I started
> volunteering on the Battleship NJ and aimed to help them get some of their
> TTY stuff going again.
>
> Jeff KC3GJX
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