[RTTY] Teletype pictures! see this video Interview with John Sheetz

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

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 at 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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