[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [GreenKeys] USB-to-serial adapters, and baudot]]

[H.E. Robert, [Just Bob!]]

-------- Original Message --------

Les,

Well Sir, that still seems like a noble task to me!   And I have a 
couple of off-the-wall ideas you may
want to consider ...the first and simplest, is to print them out on page 
printer, 15, 28, 32, whatever,
and scan them in to a PC with OCR software, I've even seen tty fonts 
available so you could laser
print them, and still maintain the look & feel of a "real" printer.

The second is to read the 5 level tape in an 8 level reader, 33, 35, 43, 
or some higher speed CNC
tape reader, then write a little program, in BASIC or C, or Shell, 
whatever your poison, to read a character,
bit shift, truncate as necessary and convert the string to ascii, and 
preserve it for posterity, .....or until the first
"nuclear" (pronounced "new-cue-ler") holocaust, in which case the only 
things that will work are the 12's, 14's,
15's and 19's, (and my Model A Ford), I think everything else has at 
least one semiconductor. So, on
second thought, use a reperf and make paper tape copies!  Aw man! Now 
I'm depressed!  Just think, we
could all be killed by a word our President can't even pronounce!  
That's okay, I still remember how to
duck & cover ....that still works ...right????

Just Bob!  ...reminding everybody that the positive thing about being a 
pessimist, is that you are very rarely disappointed!

I wish you all even parity, in the data stream of life!

 
Veenstra, Lester wrote:

>The Just BOB
>   I started the question because I was trying to get RTTYArt running on
>my laptop.  The idea started out with the requirement to read some old 5
>level tapes into the PC. (I have several hours of tapes of the AP HF
>transmission during the hours before and after the Nixon resignation).
>
>But it does not look like laptop with USB/RS-232 will fly.
>
>I still have plenty of desk top units with built in RS-232 
>So I will get this done one way or an other !  (Time to stop
>Beating on the dead horse !)
>
>  73  Les  K1YCM/3
>
>Lester Veenstra
>Senior Engineering Program Manager
>Intelsat General
>6550 Rock Springs Drive, Suite 450
>Bethesda Maryland, 20817
>+1-301-571-1212
>e-mail: lester.veenstra at intelsatgeneral.com
> 
>
>
>...........I didn't look at the original thread, so not sure what the
>original task was...............
>
>  
>