[GreenKeys] Do you know this person?

Fri Aug 6 16:14:14 EDT 2021

Steve,

I try to only tackle one problem at a time to avoid getting overwhelmed,
and right now that's still locating a couple of working teletype machines
or machines that could be made to work — one for Newton, Mass. and one for
Seattle.

But last night I was watching the channel of the YouTuber called
CuriousMarc and wondered if he's published schematics or instructions
anywhere. I'm sure you've seen his videos. You can see the hardware he's
used to connect his teletypes to a Linux PC. I'm not an engineer, but I'm
capable of following plans, wiring and soldering, and persistent. Were I
able to build one, I could build three.

This is one of the many times when I wish my Dad were still alive. He was a
brilliant MIT-trained electrical engineer and excelled at crushing these
sorts of hacks. He died of cancer in 2018.

Chuck

On Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 10:33 AM steve bennett <raleigh_ranger at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Chuck,
>
>   Have you had any luck finding plans for an interface between the Mac and
> the TTY?
> I might want to take that route at some point so I am curious what you
> come up with.
> Someone on here posted a wiring diagram showing how to use a polar relay
> to connect to
> RS232 but I don't know how you would deal with the baud rate and ascii to
> baudot conversion.
>
> -Steve
>
> On Thursday, August 5, 2021, 01:11:48 PM EDT, Chuck Robertson <
> hootsk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Steve, an expert behind a screwdriver sounds great to me. The further
> along a machine is toward tuned, probably the better chance I have of
> success (and staying on this list!).
>
> Also thanks to James and everyone else who's offered assistance. No reply
> yet from the Craigslist ad for the UPI RO in Metuchen, NJ.
>
> Before, I mentioned my impetus is that I have a kind of writing
> partnership with another writer in Seattle. (I work for a TV network, but
> he's an actual professional writer, for places like Disney and Pixar.) We
> work on episodic scripts together either in cloud apps or sending them back
> and forth by email (so far unsuccessfully, but in scriptworld things can
> change quickly). This has been complicated recently because he's discovered
> his grandfather's typewriter, loves it, and believes its more cumbersome
> nature slows him down, to his work's benefit. He believes the moments of
> extra time he spends waiting or pressing keys, he also spends thinking, and
> it's actually improved his writing. (It might be true.) He's been
> encouraging me to try this, but I'm not ready to give up screens and
> software, and when I told him instead of getting a typewriter, I was going
> to try to set up a teletype to type out my scripts, he was like, what's a
> teletype?
>
> Originally I thought I'd output from the Mac laptop to the teletype and
> mail him the pages or roll. But then I thought, what if we each had a
> teletype, and I transmitted the script over the net to it instead? I could
> call him and tell him to turn the machine on, and it'd type the script out
> at his house instead. He could watch it come through a character at a time
> if he liked. And when he finished one, vice versa.
>
> Chuck Robertson
> Newton, Mass.
>
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 6:07 PM steve bennett <raleigh_ranger at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> Chuck,
>
>   I am holding on to your contact information because I have an Associated
> Press M15 RO
> I might let go after I get it working.
> I have since acquired a M19 so I do not need both.
> I will keep you in mind. I paid $50 for it and bought parts. I would
> rather sell it as a working unit
> rather than a basket case. Stay tuned.
>
> -Steve AD8CI
>
> On Wednesday, August 4, 2021, 12:37:56 PM EDT, Chuck Robertson <
> hootsk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello GreenKeys,
>
> Is the person who posted this UPI machine on Craigslist on this list? Or
> does anyone on this list know this person?
>
>
> https://cnj.craigslist.org/zip/d/metuchen-vintage-upi-teletype-machine/7349823306.html
>
> I've sent a couple of emails, but so far, crickets. If you're them, please
> call me, or if you do, please let me know or just give them my number. I
> haven't found a teletype yet and I'm really champing at the bit to get
> started.
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck Robertson
> Newton, Mass.
> (206) 579-0321
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