[GreenKeys] Fwd: Teletype Model 33 TTY

[Don Robert House]

Yes Bryan,

I know.  Every year we would have to replace the 33ASR at Barrington  
High School.  The students would treat the machine terribly.

I was over there every month the school was open.  It probably would  
have been less costly for us to put in a 35ASR but of course it would  
have cost too much.

You might know that most of the residents of Barrington, IL are rich.

Figures,
Don



On 13 May 2009, at 11:28 AM, Bryan Brodie wrote:

Don,

I know you hated them, but as a junior high school kid learning
programming for the first time in the 1970s, the ASR33 was the most
amazing thing we had ever seen.

One spoiled rich kid I knew had his father buy him one; it cost them
about $3000-4000 because they did not want to lease it and he had
'connections' with the phone company. He also had a Camaro before he
had a driver's license...

The really cool thing was the day I finally made the pilgrimage to the
computer room where the time-sharing system we connected to was
installed. The HP2000 minicomputer had a ASR35 as the system console -
and I had wanted one ever since. Thanks to George Hutchinson, I got my
wish.

There are a lot of people in IT today whose first exposure to
computers was as a kid through the ASR33. The ones with money who want
to re-live their childhoods still want a terminal of their own. We
never in our wildest dreams imagined that one day we would actually
have a computer in our homes.

For them, $300 is chicken feed...

Bryan Brodie

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>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Don Robert House <k9tty at dls.net>
> To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 00:17:28 -0500
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Teletype Model 33 TY
>>
>> See ebay item # 360154169108 for an example
>
> This item will likely go for somewhere between $325 and $400.
> ___________________________________________________
>
> Yes, this is true but we still do not know the significance of the  
> TY designation...
>
> Amazing that a 33 will command such a high price.
>
> I have a couple of 15s, a 20, a 26, many 28s, a 32, 35, 37, 40, 45  
> and none of them would command even half of these dollar amounts.
>
> As a Bell repairman I hated the darn things.  More cases of trouble  
> than any other machine made by Teletype.
>
> SIGH,
>
> Don
>
>
>
>
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