[GreenKeys] Help with getting Teletype 43 online

[Greg Miller]

Lol!  It's always fun to hear stories about experiences with these old
devices.

My only experience with the model 43 (actually the very unit I'm working
on) was with it connected to a transmitter remote control system called a
Moseley MRC-1 at a TV station I used to work at.  The model 43 was mainly
used to print out transmitter readings at regular intervals for the master
control operator.  I didn't learn until just the other day that the 43
could have been used to control channels on the remote control to do things
such as raise and lower transmitter power, turn the transmitter on and off,
etc.  When the MRC-1 was replaced, I made sure to squirrel-away the model
43 since it otherwise would have been tossed in the dumpster.  I've had it
in storage for about 20 years now and I figured it was time to get her
cleaned up and working again.

Here is a brochure for the Moseley MRC-1 - which includes a photo of a
model 43:
https://www.steampoweredradio.com/pdf/moseley/catalogs/Moseley%20MRC-1%20Remote%20Control%20Brochure%20March%201981.pdf

- Greg


On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 1:02 AM Jeffrey Golas <jeffg at junknet.net> wrote:

> My very first teletype experience was getting banned from my computer,
> while I was doing good on Tradewars for once. I got my hands on a 43 that
> had the (300 baud) modem in it, and used it to play Tradewars. I kept
> flipping the paper arpund until it was unusable.
>
> Jeff
>
> > On Feb 4, 2023, at 11:23 PM, Greg Miller <k2gtm1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I finally got around to cleaning and getting my model 43 working again,
> and I have it communicating correctly with my Windows 10 PC via a serial
> port and PuTTY.  I'd love to be able to use the 43 as a terminal to connect
> to some BBSes via Telnet, but I can't figure out how to do it.
> >
> > My options are to use the Win10 PC, or my Raspberry Pi clone (Libre
> LePotato).  I think the Pi probably makes more sense, but I'm pretty green
> with Linux.  I also need to figure out how to get my serial to USB adapter
> to work with the Pi.
> >
> > Can you help?
> >
> > Thanks and 73,
> > Greg K2GTM
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