[GreenKeys] Fwd: nostalgia

[Jim Cooper]

In response to the YT link posted by 
Daniel Jones <djones at k6yic.com>
I received the following when I shared it 
with our local radio club: 

On 4 Apr 2021 at 18:33, FRED BELGHAUS 
<fbelghaus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah...the lovely sound of the
> clankety clanking RTTY machine! It
> had moving parts, you know, folks. 
> It wasn't a cold, lifeless thing that
> just sits there and suddenly, words
> pop up on a screen. It had "soul." 
> 
> When the RTTY machine was printing,
> you KNEW it, unless you were deaf. 
> Gears turning, the moving type bars
> hammering an inked, cloth ribbon, and
> pressing the letters on a roll of
> paper.  And inside, if you removed the
> cover, a complex network of moving
> parts, all working in harmony like a
> well-oiled machine should.  It was a
> marvel of mechanical genius, and it
> served us so well for so many
> decades, virtually unchanged.  Can
> that be said about anything today?
> Things don't last long, today.  They
> need "upgrades" every year, even
> sooner.  And the "upgrades" never
> end. 
> 
> You'd have to have lived then to
> appreciate the unique charm of such
> an "old," slow thing.  We weren't in
> a hurry about everything, then. We had
> to be patient, and wait until the
> whole message was typed out. And we
> didn't need "upgrades," nor would we
> have wanted any. 
> 
> I look around me, though, and see
> where we've been and where we're
> likely to end up, and I wonder
> whether it's been worth it. 
> 
> Thanks for the memories. 
> 
> 73 and Happy Easter to all,
> 
> Fred W2AAB