[GreenKeys] UGC-136 print sample

[Paul Newland, ad7i]

Hello Jeff --

Thanks for this very interesting story.  And yes, I will definitely sleep
better tonight knowing that you got one of the 43s !

73, Paul, ad7i



On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 10:25 PM Jeffrey Golas <jeffg at junknet.net> wrote:

> If it makes you feel any better, I grew up next to a place that likely
> dealt with that scrap. They were family friends (recyclers) and let me
> bring home stuff to mess with, including a 43 and a box of paper. Found it
> had a modem built in.
>
> Ended up getting banned from my computer for bad grades, and used the 43
> to get on my bbs to keep up my Tradewars game. (Yes it burned paper).
>
> Eventually it got scrapped but at least one had a final run lol.
>
> Now I have a 43 on the shelf awaiting repair some day. (Power supply
> issue).
>
> Jeff
>
> On Jul 10, 2025, at 9:21 PM, Paul Newland, ad7i <ad7i at ad7i.net> wrote:
>
> 
> We had lots of Model 43 TTYs at Bell Labs in Holmdel.  The print was
> beautiful, the keyboards had a terrific feel, and could be hefted and moved
> by a single person.
>
> And then glass terminals with Emacs came into prominence and the 43s (most
> often used with Unix ed, a line oriented text editing program) were put in
> a bin that the porters wheeled away, likely to the mechanical graveyard.
> And I didn't even rescue one of them.  I had moved on to Emacs.
>
> I still cry myself to sleep some nights when I think about that, 40+ years
> later.
>
> Paul, ad7i
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM Harold Hallikainen via GreenKeys <
> greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, July 10, 2025 4:44 pm, Nick England wrote:
>> > 7x9
>> > https://www.navy-radio.com/tty/ugc136/ugc136-ad-1.jpg
>>
>> That looks pretty good! I assume there is no lower case (as I recall,
>> these can do ASCII or Baudot). I think the Teletype model 43 looked a bit
>> better (and included lower case with descenders). Some model 43 output is
>> at https://bh.hallikainen.org/uploads/HfDrc190.pdf#page=14 .
>>
>>  I've done a lot of projects using Unifont (
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Unifont ) that uses either an 8x16 or a
>> 16x16 bitmap for each glyph. In products I designed (before retiring a
>> few years ago), I included the first 65,535 Unix code points. That covers
>> upper and lower case ASCII plus a lot of glyphs for Japanese, Chinese,
>> Korean, Arabic, etc. In thos products, I wrote code that converted UTF-8
>> to 16 bit characters which then indexed into a 1 MB SPI flash to get the
>> bitmap. In the DSP TU, I used just the ASCII range (all glyphs 8x16) to
>> drive the display for the menus.
>>
>> All fun stuff!
>>
>> Harold
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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