[GreenKeys] The "wallet-minimal" approach to a dedicated clatter-klunkenwerker

[Sean Kelly]

Gang,

The ARRL book is unavailable from their store and looks very long. I took time out from the C19 wild spending binge to find this webpage:

https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/ham_radio/digimodes/what-is-rtty-radio-teletype.php

I left the audio of the autostart channel on yesterday. Expecting warbling, when the steady tone began the first time I wondered if this was someone else's fire alarm and mine was not working, than if it was something inside my apartment: CO2, no, wrong sound, smoke, no, way off. My watch????? No...then I figured it out.

I still want to avoid an uncomputerized printer due to weight considerations. I do have a Mac Classic and an Imagewriter II that has stood the test of time through materiel purges although does it need to be recapped? Even an old 14.4 modem for although cables might be a problem as it's been so many years. I was looking at the Texas Instruments portable terminals and wondering if I could do anything with them? Ones like the Silent Writer 700, AT&T Telephone System Administration Data Terminal, or maybe even this one:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Vtech-IQ-Unlimited-System-Working/133405852633

I think it's a smart typewriter which you could connect a serial printer to.

I'd love to have an HP 80 series as a dedicated setup (QTH is Seattle if anyone learns of such - HP 85, 86, or 87 or XM - that are getting too heavy for someone to hang onto), but they seem to be the one type of vintage computer that is holding it's value.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-85-DESKTOP-COMPUTER-SPECIFICATIONS-circa-1-80/174228129817
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And it sounds cray cray but I wonder since I have an Never The Same Color (twice) television if something like a Commodore VIC 20 would be good enough if I wasn't posting news yet.

Actually, I've only heard two messages in 24 hours. Oh, and the WYSE and DEC terminals also seem to be holding their value even on a day (yesterday) when I was finally able to afford The same HT one of our senior members in CAP had back in 1983, which was an ICOM IC-2AT that I got in the high $60's...after wanting one for 37 years. Purported to be working (AA battery case) and easy to but Privacy Line tone into. I always liked the thumbwheel switches and have some aviation HTs with them, too.

Oh, the TI-99/4s look like they might be coming out and coming down, along with modem carts showing up.

Thanks for any help.

By the way, just for fun, the second line needed to account for coin drops might be able to be simulated with a little box that is normally used to make two phones act like an intercom (only two, though).

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Beautiful-Restored-Bell-System-Working-Rotary-New-York-Payphone-Works-At-Home/164365313183
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Any responses strongly encouraged and hoped for.

Sean
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