[GreenKeys] "Easy" is the wrong word for TTYs but "Fun" is the right word

Sun Oct 25 07:34:05 EDT 2020

Good food for thought Sean.  Wish you lived near Atlanta so you could stop by for much more than 20 hours of practice on some mechanical wonders.

I’m still wearing my dog tags and the chain that was issued to me in the mid-60s.  Guess they weren’t made in China as I’ve never had the slightest problem on the back of my neck.  😊

And as for just 20 hours of practice, I find that quite astounding as I attended teletype maintenance school in the USAF for 6 hours a day, 6 days a week, plus 4 to 6 hours of “homework” every day, for 30 some odd weeks.  Quite a bit of time to learn a trade that is all but disappearing.

Steve G./N4TTY

From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net <greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Sean Kelly
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2020 7:01 AM
To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [GreenKeys] "Easy" is the wrong word for TTYs but "Fun" is the right word

"Absolutly pretenscious. You're just blowing it."

It bothers me a great deal that the supply of tonnage for the ballast-to-landfill pipeline is heavy and unceasing. I know America and any other countries this reflector reaches are not filled with frustrated hourologists looking for fine machinery in need of work. An although mine worked on F-4s first, he was not self-taught. Omega sent him to Switzerland and now he is quite good at fixing Swiss watches, or any other kind. Or Russian circular watch slide rules. Or, or, or.

You guys know your teletypes won't fix themselves and I know that young people won't learn how to do it via osmosis and the Grim Reaper is ever at the door waiting to reduce your family's inheritance to buried rust. If you want anybody to know what it feels like to switch the machine on and what it sounds like to hear it whir to life in five hundred years, you need to try something different than what you did with me: the sink or swim approach, very like that other group of huge underachievers: Mensa.

Early on in my time on Greenkeys while you were failing to capitalize on my enthusiasm by not answering questions, steering me in the way a person learns the hobby, and focusing my energy on these machines that everybody should be in awe of, I was making the long list of links in my .sig below. Shoulda been a warning sign but no alert was raised.

If you guys ever want to have fun again, take some advice from a NON-remf and VA warrior monk and share the fun you have to offer with young people. I don't know if you guys know this, but they come in every stripe of geekdom, have tremendious intellectual curiousity that is just waiting potential craving to be developed. The teletypes aren't going to fix themselves and the factories that make up America's manufacturing base aren't going to keep themselves running. America's education system is not going to stop being one of the rackets until they sucked every last one of us dry and China is not going to stop "recycling" toxic waste by "blending" it into American consumer products they way they did with the dog tag chain that put abcesses in the back of my neck before I figured out what they came from. (Don't worry, I figured it out in time, they healed).

America has a great future but only if you will put back down the ladder you pulled up after yourselves. "C" school may take several months but you can make intricate things fun by teaching a skillset of basics which make possible futher self-learning in just twenty hours of initial learning.

I can see your machines are delicate and elegant and in need of great skill and toil to keep from flinging themselves to into a state of ruin. And the young people in our society have been betrayed terribly and are in need of a metaphor which would allow them to repair the ruin of their collective lives...although I admit it might be hard to ship downstairs a teletype into Mom's basement for them to learn on it from.

This video explains in nine minutes - just under ten minutes - the twenty-hour process of becoming good enough at something to be able to enjoy it and therefore want to keep learning. I don't know but I suspect with TTY it is the same as with music or flying or writing or math or cinema or filmmaking or even my main hobby: Star Trek.

To be good at any of these, you never stop learning.

I'm leaving now. The video is cued to start in the right place and could just as well be titled "How to teach anything.".

https://youtu.be/5MgBikgcWnY?t=514

 <https://youtu.be/5MgBikgcWnY?t=514> 

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During the quality control check (just on the video) it occurred to me that mechanical teletypes can be a way to put the skill back into digital modes and those low-power modes can be a way for people living under the tyranny of HOAs (the Supreme Court case really didn't change much) to fully participate in ham radio once more despite being unable to escape small e.r.p.s.

Sean Kelly,

Seattle

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https://www.khanacademy.org/

https://es.khanacademy.org/

https://fr.khanacademy.org/

https://ar.khanacademy.org/

https://www.duolingo.com/

http://aa5au.com/GettingStartedOnRtty.pdf

https://www.telegramcableco.com/

https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-desktop-kit/

https://support.microsoft.com/

Vintage computer resources:

https://www.danielsays.com/

Commodore:

https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/

Hewlett-Packard Eighty Series:

http://www.series80.org/

http://hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?swc=3

http://hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?content=How%20To%20Download#

Cassette tape - it just might come back:

https://www.tdk.com/corp/en/about_tdk/our_history/index.htm

https://fixitclub.com/electronics-repairs/cassette-deck-repair/

Radio:

http://prc68.com/

https://www.anythingradioactive.com/geiger-counter-accessories/Hi-Z-700-headphones

Classical music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1maDHoAEV0&list=PLn2jvHiOLNBGEhny1rQ9JqQufsGxzzdZt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWgrx95aj1o <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWgrx95aj1o&list=PLwm3H2m-Z3OKCCaYr_4AhuOV8vaFXzxP1> &list=PLwm3H2m-Z3OKCCaYr_4AhuOV8vaFXzxP1

Looking for IBM PC 8-bit & 16-bit MEMORY boards. Location is Seattle.

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