[GreenKeys] wanted - used paper tape ??? Michigan Yooper

[Steve Garrison]

I think it was something he mentioned in what he was describing as the reason he wanted to show kids how we communicated back in the day.  I thought he mentioned before the digital age in one form or another, but don’t have his explanation here in front of me at the moment.

 

Those mark and space “bits’ were our 1s and 0s, so its has been “digital” for ages.

 

Steve G./N4TTY

 

From: Duncanancy <Duncanancy at earthlink.net> 
Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2021 8:12 AM
To: Steve Garrison <steve.n4tty at gmail.com>; eric <epvgk at limpoc.com>
Cc: Greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] wanted - used paper tape ??? Michigan Yooper

 

Steve,

 

What do you mean "pre-digital"?

Where do you think the term "Baud rate" comes from?

 

We tell visitors at the AWA Museum that digital communications has been around for over 130 years!  And email started in the 1930s (TWX/TELEX)!

 

 

Have fun,

 

Duncan 

K2OEQ 

 

 

 

 

Sent from my Kleinschmidt TT-4/TG, the US Army's first portable digital communications device, 1950-1980

 

 

 

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From: Steve Garrison <steve.n4tty at gmail.com <mailto:steve.n4tty at gmail.com> > 

Date: 5/1/21 05:58 (GMT-05:00) 

To: eric <epvgk at limpoc.com <mailto:epvgk at limpoc.com> > 

Cc: Greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net <mailto:greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> > 

Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] wanted - used paper tape ??? Michigan Yooper 

 

Thought it was interesting that he wanted to show the kids how we did things in pre-digital age, yet if he was to put a scope across the contacts of a TD with a little current in a loop he could show the "1s and 0s" of that non-digital era equipment.

Maybe we should send him a TD as well!

Steve G./N4TTY
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> On May 1, 2021, at 2:16 AM, eric <epvgk at limpoc.com <mailto:epvgk at limpoc.com> > wrote:
> 
>> On 2021-04-30 23:12, Jim Cooper wrote:
>>> On 30 Apr 2021 at 19:41, epvgk at limpoc.com <mailto:epvgk at limpoc.com>  wrote:
>>> Nice! I'm sure we can come up with some tape for him. heh.
>>> I'd be happy to punch a few yards of news and weather
>>> and send it along to him if it'd help.
>> I thought I had a couple of 'balls' of wound up
>> picture tapes, but couldn't find them on a quick
>> look.  I had a length, about 4 ft., of chadless
>> punched typing reperf tape hanging on one of the
>> 19" racks (for the past 55 years!) which I'll send
>> him; along with a set of Signal Corp training booklets
>> on Comm Centers and Tape Relay Operations!  (Some
>> of you have gotten those with your ribbon orders).
>> Also told him if he wanted more tape, I was sure
>> some of you guys would be glad to punch up some
>> fresh tape for him.  Sounds like a really nifty
>> outreach to the kids. More update when I hear
>> back from him.
>> Jim   W2JC
> 
> I've already chatted with him and told him I'd send him some fully punched and chadless tape as well.
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