[GreenKeys] How did you acquire your Teletypes?
John, W9DDD
w9ddd at tapr.org
Fri Aug 28 12:09:37 EDT 2020
Interesting that Signal One was part of ECI. ECI became part of
E-Systems some time prior to my time at the Garland division of ESY. I
think ECI lost a big contract to an Israeli company and probably shut
down around the time Raytheon bought ESY.
John, W9DDD
On 8/28/2020 10:55 AM, Jeffrey Angus wrote:
> Here's my story.
> Around 1972, I was working at Signal One in Gardena.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal/One>
>
> Ed Jay the owner walks up to me with a Model 15 on a cart.
> "Our sales brochure says it can do RTTY. Make it happen."
> I bought the RSGB Teleprinter hand book at Henry Radio and
> off I went.
> I did get it working.
>
> 1974, I was working at TRW Systems Group and bought a
> Model 19 set from a co-worker.
> 1987 I picked up a TWX Model 32.
> Of course it was at 50 baud.
> So I wrote a program in BASIC on my Commodore C-64 to
> get around that.
>
> End of TTY for a while.
> Around 2008 I bought a Lorenz Lo-15B from a GK member
> in Burbank before moving to Texas.
>
> Jeff
> "Real keyboards have green keycaps."
>
>
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