It’s interesting to watch where this hobby is going. It’s like old cars. Some are restored to original factory specs. Others are custom modified. We have 3D printed
items to replace unobtanium parts, software defined terminal units/modems with build in motor control, changing uppercase to lowercase, creative solutions for loop supplies, plug and play adapters and more (I’m certainly not intending to leave anyone out!).
We even saw a model 15 hooked to an 8 bit computer!
I’m personally a fan for restoring to factory specs but certainly welcome those with creativity and skills to do things I can’t. It makes our hobby stronger, generates interest and brings in more people. I can’t wait to see what some of you come up with next.
Carry on!
Paul
W2TTY
> On Jul 11, 2022, at 3:30 PM, Joe Duszyński <joeduszynski1@gmail.com> wrote:
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> My weekend project of making a lowercase typebox for a Model 28
> for giggles.
> For those not in the i-Telex German group Telexforum.de most of the foreign machines I've come to see are are lower case and I've had a few penpal/telexpal's tell me they were surprised to see ALL CAPS on the American machines when their machines are ALL
Lowercase. This would happen when I would send them a picture of their Telex on my machine.
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> LOL well no more surprise! I now have a lowercase 28 box! LOL!
> Just need to adjust the text up just a tad so the decenders on some of the characters show up a bit darker.
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