[GreenKeys] teletype at Steampunk Expo

[John Nagle]

On 6/23/2012 3:49 PM, greenkeys-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> From: Nick England<navy.radio at gmail.com>
> Subject: [GreenKeys] teletype at Steampunk Expo
 >
> Just for fun, I hauled out my 28KSR, 28TD, and 28LPR to a Steampunk
> convention this AM.
> Had 'em all wired together so folks could punch up a tape, read it
> through the TD and see the results.
> I removed all the covers so they could see just what marvelous
> mechanical creations these machines are.
> No where near as fancy as John Nagle's excellent work
> <http://www.aetherltd.com/>, but folks had fun with it anyways.
> I made up a tape with Header, To, From, and Message fields and paused
> the TD after each field so that people could type in the appropriate
> info - then they were astounded when I pulled the resulting tape off
> the reperf and ran it through the TD - gave the them tape as a
> souvenir.
> At other times I just ran a "Welcome to the Expo" message as a tape
> loop out of the punch directly into the TD so they could see it all
> working together.
> The display elicited a few "I remember those things" and many "I
> didn't dream such a thing was actually possible!"
> http://www.navy-radio.com/misc/steam.htm
> cheers,
> Nick

     Very, very nice.

     You're on to something.  I think we made our Telegraph Office
such a polished operation that people were too isolated from the
equipment.  Next time, I think I'll set up a pair of Model 14
tape printers hooked to each other and let people type back
and forth.

					John Nagle