Yes, but always good to check this link to we mention at
https://www.facebook.com/teletypegroup
as we are stating to post some tty and fringe tty stuff there
and easy for us to place photos there etc. You do not have to belong
to facebook to use it.. I set the group so that was not necessary.. there
is nothing invasive about it.
Bob..... the museum project would be interested in your old art
tapes in your attic.. neat you have saved them!
It was good to hear of John's involvement in the ttys for the Deaf and
Hard of Hearing. We have a rather large display on this history here
we are building out and carry it from some of the pre- tty telephonic
attempts though the mechanical era and though the portable era all the way
up to using an i-Phone to sign with visually.
So teletypes appear here in three areas... Military Comm. Amateur Radio
and Deaf Telecom. It is all..... fascinating!
Ed# KF7RWW archivist for SMECC
In a message dated 3/14/2014 7:16:59 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
wb2coy@hotmail.com writes:
You can see the interview without having to go anywhere near Facebook at
this link:
https://archive.org/details/20030322-bbs-sheetz
I fondly remember many a Sunday afternoon copying RTTY Pix on my old Model
19 and 28 using an ST-6 decoder back in the 70's.
John talks about a RTTY Art contest.... I actually entered one in 1977 and
even found a website with an archive of old artwork that
had my entry! Not very good, but it was fun trying it out. I believe I
copied some pix directly from Don, WA6PIR (mentioned in the
interview), but by far most of my copy was from WA0CKY (Ricky) somewhere
in the mid-west. Still have a box of paper tapes in the
attic somewhere! All the old equipment is gone, except for a Kleinschmidt
(SIC) machine. Used ro have reperfs and standalone
tape readers. I miss the smell of machine oil and the wastebasket full of
chad from the tape punch!
I learned a lot from the interview about how WA6PIR created his artwork. I
often wondered how he did it so well.
A nice nostalgic look at my past. Worth a look-see for any old timers out
there, or any 'youngsters' who were wondering how RTTY
got started.
73 Bob WB2COY
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