[HCARC] TTY

[Virgil Bierschwale]

Used the 60 milliamp ones on the sims ff-1059 from 76 to 82

When the ac goes out and the temp hits 100 plus, they shock like ???? if you touch the wrong part

http://keepamericaatwork.com/ham_trader/

here is a picture of the equipment we used back then

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From: hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:hcarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of SARA SANDSTROM
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:57 AM
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Subject: [HCARC] TTY


Teletype is a fascinating system.  There were/are 2 basic interface standards:  60 ma current loop and 20 ma current loop.  The problem with the 60 ma current loop is not the current.  Most loop supplies for the 60 ma standard provided 200 - 300 Volts.  This was because of the large inducta nce of the selector magnets in parallel.  If you didn't have enough voltage you couldn't drive the magnets.  The 20 ma standard was almost compatible with RS-232.  You could use th e approximately 12 Volts provided by a lot of RS-232 drivers to operate the machines.  As I understand it, the basic difference between a 60 ma machine and a 20 ma machine is the 60 ma machine had the selector magnets in parallel while the 20 ma machine had them in series .  By the 70's most if not all military TTY gear for comm had been converted to 20 ma low level operation.  The TTY machines used as computer terminals were probably never converted to low level but just eventually replaced often by a selectric typewriter type terminal or a Texas Instrum ents termi nal called a "Silent 700 " which used heat sensitve paper, if I remember correctly . 

Even solid state TU's (terminal units) had no problem with the high level (60 ma) machines.  At l east through the HAL ST-5000/ST- 6000 TU's , high level interfaces as well as low level, RS-232 and Mil Std 188c interfaces wereprovided .   O ptical isolators were not required/used. 

Incidently, I believe one of our members, John Canfield, used to be an AT&T TTY guy . 

If you can still find one, most of the old terminal programs included Baudot as a choice and had no problem converting TTY signals to ASCII for internal computer use.  The computer became a "Glass TTY".  Works fine, very quiet, and doesn't smell of oil and dust!  Many year s ago I got an Atari 800 computer for  my son.  I had a short program that converted a TTY signal to the ASCII.  I used the Atari as my TTY terminal.  A slow 8-bit processor had no problem keeping up with Baudot.   
  
Kerry
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