[GreenKeys] TTY Demo Today

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I think the  art  is a good promotional tool.. 
in the 70's that is what i remember fondest 
about the short  stint I had as a rtty SWL
listener/printer on  a 28 and an r-390
what happened?  I ended up in the computer business so busy
with all the ASCII stuff Ray Morison gave me and mini computers
we were working for and  the Dawn of  the Micro in mass  market...
 
It will be  fun to hook one of these  tus  up at the museum  and  do  some 
printing  again!
 
Ed Sharpe archivist for smecc
 
 
 
In a message dated 1/12/2013 2:46:36 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
steve.n4tty at gmail.com writes:

 
ZCZC 
Hey Gang, 
Hope the TTY Art went well today Tom, but I missed out on  it as I was 
doing a demo at an Amateur Radio event called TechFest  2013. 
If you've got the time you can look at this YouTube video  from TechFest 
2012 to see what it is all about: 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKNgpo4WCIs_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKNgpo4WCIs)  
If you watch it at least up to 7:48 you'll find me with my  TT98 and 
HeavyMetal running for last year's demo. 
This year's demo was entitled "A Marriage of Old and New  Technology -- The 
Original Text Machine." 
Thanks to John Nagle and his BaudotRSS software and his  RS232 to current 
loop converter, the TT-98 stole the show. 
Our display was constantly covered up by old hands that  exclaimed "Wow, I 
remember those" and young children that just stood wide eyed  and opened 
mouth at the machine with all the moving parts.  And there  were many, many 
comments to the effect that it was great to see that these  machines were being 
preserved and shown to folks that had no idea of their  existence. 
While the display of current news items from Reuters was  well received, 
the biggest hit was the sending and receiving of text  messages.   The young 
crowd especially was very excited about being  able to send a text message to 
one of their friends or parents and then get  the reply to their text right 
back on the printer.  Many of them walked  away with a canary yellow piece 
of paper as a souvenir of their  experience.  There was an abundance of 
"Awesome" and "Cool" and "Hey Dude  you've got to see this!"  All in all it was 
a fantastic experience even  for the old dude putting on the show. 
I didn't really keep a count, but I would say probably  between 80 to 100 
text messages were sent and received. 
And I was asked to be sure and do something like it again  next year.  
Maybe Tom will be sending TTY Art next year and I can punch  tapes for the 
attendees.  But we'll have to disconnect when Bat Girl  comes across.  :-) 
I'd like to thank all of the GreenKeys group because in  some respects you 
have all helped with the demo that was done  today. 
Steve G./N4TTY 
NNNN


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