[GreenKeys] [ex-teletype] How not to test a teletypewriter (fwd)

[Jim Haynes]

I forwarded the story to the ex-Teletype group on Yahoo and got this
reply.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:23:37 -0500
From: Carl Lantz <ccwlantz at wowway.com>
To: Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
Cc: ex-teletype at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ex-teletype] [GreenKeys] How not to test a teletypewriter  (fwd)

Jim, very interesting. I remember it well!  I don't think that 33 ASR was
the only thing destroyed on the shaker.

IIRC, the shaker was originally mounted directly to the concrete floor in
the T-7 basement next to the temperature chamber Chuck refers to in his
article.  When the shaker was first turned on, it shook the whole building. 
It was obvious that the shaker needed to be isolated from the building
structure which meant excavating the floor and installing isolation mounts,
which was done.

At the time of Chuck's story, probably 1963-64, I was an engineer in the New
Product test lab working for Gordon Meyers and Chuck Glorioso was a tech on
the bench in the same lab.  Later, Chuck became a Project Supervisor of a
group in R&D doing work on large disk memories, among other things.  That
would have been in the very late 1960s or early ''70s. 
Chuck's wife also worked at TTY.  I believe she worked for Dave Wilmott in
118 T-7 where the initial IC research and production was done.

Carl Lantz

At 10:32 AM 10/12/2010, Jim Haynes wrote:
        
       Subject: [GreenKeys] How not to test a teletypewriter

        
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/other/4209357/Warning--Turn-down-g
       ain-before-switching-input?cid=NL_EELife