From: b4@gewt.net (Cory Smelosky)
Subject: [TUHS] Teletype
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:51:35 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DFB.2.11.1409151549130.994@meaghan.gimme-sympathy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140915154725.2FFA01B1716@www.oztivo.net>
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014, John Foust wrote:
> At 01:04 PM 8/15/2014, Brian Zick wrote:
>> Would it still be possible today for someone like me to go out, and find an old teletype terminal (an old ASR or DECwriter or something), set up a phone line and modem and get a roll of paper, and then actually use it to connect to other computers?
>
> Yes, lots of people do it. There is a "Greenkeys" mailing list
>
I have plans to do it once I get the PSU for my LA120 sorted out.
[...]
> populated by mostly ham radio RTTY types, but it's also a great archive
> of posts about hook-ups and repairs. Yes, there are current-loop
> adapters and RS-232 to USB adapters that can be used to connect
> to contemporary machines. There are also streaming audio web sites
> that send RTTY-style signals if you'd like to emulate your old radio
> over the Internet but still use your RTTY audio decoding hardware.
>
[...]
>
> They routinely huff and puff at recent auction prices for the Model 33,
> though, as old computer collectors routinely pay $1,000 for them, while
> it's tough to give away the better-built (and heavier!) teletypes.
>
Really is annoying how much they go for. :(
> Last summer I picked up a Western Union-branded Teletype Model 28 KSR
> (circa mid-1950s) in near-pristine condition for $50. Almost twenty
> years ago I found a Model 33 in a university dumpster.
>
I got a (broken, but repairable) LA120 for the total cost of $0 as the guy
has like 10 and likes enabling my hobby. ;)
> - John
>
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2014-08-15 18:04 Brian Zick
[not found] ` <99C03A20-7BC3-44CA-946D-6CFD56B9346F@orthanc.ca>
2014-08-15 18:52 ` Brian Zick
2014-08-15 19:05 ` Ed Skinner
2014-08-15 19:13 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-15 21:07 ` Clem Cole
2014-08-15 21:23 ` Hoskins, Matthew E.
2014-08-18 5:54 ` Brian Zick
2014-08-16 10:25 ` Dario Niedermann
2014-08-15 19:08 ` John Cowan
2014-08-15 19:16 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-16 20:42 ` Ernesto Celis
[not found] ` <CAEvOwxW=G+g3dtSGaN=P7QmovgOygfANxacmcUo9Devn6v6B1Q@mail.g mail.com>
2014-09-15 15:13 ` John Foust
2014-09-15 19:38 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-15 19:51 ` Cory Smelosky [this message]
2014-08-15 21:47 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-15 21:53 ` Warner Losh
2014-08-15 22:01 ` John Cowan
2014-08-16 1:56 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-16 2:12 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-16 21:28 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-08-15 21:55 ckeck
2014-08-16 14:35 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-17 17:33 Noel Chiappa
2014-08-18 13:56 Noel Chiappa
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