[GreenKeys] How did you acquire your Teletypes?

[Steve Garrison]

Although I was a Teletype repairman in the USAF in the late 60s, my exposure was to just 19, 28, and Kleinschmidt gear.  In late 76 I got a 33KSR from a local Teletype repair shop (where a retired AF Sargent I was stationed with in Okinawa worked). I used this as the first real I/O device on the Altair I was building.  I had to key in a minimal monitor program by hand on the input switches in order to use the 33 to make any further changes to the running code.  I only had 1K of RAM and no ROM, so when I turned it off everything in memory at the time was lost.

Can you imagine having to do that these days?!

Steve G./N4TTY
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> On Aug 27, 2020, at 4:55 PM, <tomas at tlec.se> <tomas at tlec.se> wrote:
> 
> Well, My first encounter with a teletyp, actually a Model 33 ASR was when I 16 years old, back in -76 started my first year in High school (think that it is the proper translation from Swedish)
> The school had previous year bought Alpha LSI 16, also known as the "Naked Mini" manufacured by CA (Computer Automation).
> In the first Year a single Model 33 ASR was used as terminal, later the ALPHA was connected to some 20+ terminals, but the 33ASR was still used, for print-outs and paperpunch ( how would we store our software, if not on papertape).
> 
> Basically I learned programming on this Model 33 ASR
> 
> Now, since a year back or so, I finaly got hold of one.
> Unfortunatly, we managed to dropp it, when I was collecting it, so the hood was smasched in thousands pieces, however, I have repaired it and got it working, need to change the typewheel though, since it is badly smashed.
> 
> My Idea is to make a wireless card, and use it in my home network ( will probably drive the wife to nuts, I guess) then I can use it as a normal printer.
> 
> With best regards
> Tomas Larsson
> Borås Sweden
> 
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