I was just thinking (dangerous, I know) this morning about the history of RTTY, and I wondered exactly when did the use of mechanical teleprinters become obsolete? Now, back in 1975, there was a fell
I suspect the Commodore 64 and AEA's software (early-mid 1980s?) for it was the major assulat on mechanical telprinters. That's when I got back into RTTY. When I was a kid I had a neighbor who was in
Who says that mechanical teleprinters are obsolete? ;-) I use my Teletype Model 28 ASR on the air daily and in the contests. There is a small group of us die-hards who continue to use mechanical tele
You can't! Or how do you simulate the smell of hot oil on steel in software? And there is no replacement of watching the wheels and levers in action... SCNR, 73, Ekki, DF4OR (occasionally running a S
When I worked at DYE-5 in Iceland on the DEW line from 1977-1979 we still used a TTY machine to send our daily reports. Never saw another one in use since I left there that I can remember. It was a l
The last time I saw a mechanical teleprinter was when I dumped my old Model 19 off the back of the trailer at the local metal scrap yard last year. I sure hated to see that old gal go. It was simply
We were using mechanical machines on Navy ships until the mid 1980s at least. Don AD0K --Original Message-- When I worked at DYE-5 in Iceland on the DEW line from 1977-1979 we still used a TTY machin
When I left Western Union in 1985, the Digital Exchange System (DES) which combined the former AT&T TWX system with the Telex system in the USA, had tens of thousands of end devices in commercial (bu
FEMA was still using (infrequently) Model 43's as late as the mid 90's We had one in daily use at the TN state emergency management center. (or was it noaa? I've slept since then) Tom NU4G __________
Just in way of a response here, my second job out of school was working for a company (Wiltek) who replaced teleprinter message networks in Fortune 500 company with a store and forward terminal and a
I used the TRS-80 and Macrotrinics interface sometime in the 70's. I had a friend here who was using the S-100 bus with a RTTY setup. He had been using that for a long time when the TRS-80 came out.
Boy, I know how you feel. I remember I would have killed for a model 28, and I findally got one (didn't have to kill anyone). Finally gave it to a guy and he scrapped it out for the copper wire. 73 T