[GreenKeys] The Teletype Machine That Could Draw

[David Wade]

Folks,
On that theme, in 2015 I took my Creed 7B teleprinter and 6S6 tape 
reader to a Makefest at the Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester 
to print RTTY pics.
Sorry the pic is a little fuzzy...
Dave
G4UGM



On 16/05/2026 05:22, John Spigel via GreenKeys wrote:
> I've posted a bunch, 125 or so, of additional TTY ART MP3 files on
>
> https://5bits.net
>
> Now just 170 shift, but will add 850 shift in next few days. I've 
> rendered the ART in GIF format so you can get an idea of what you 
> might be printing. I'll make up a fancier web display later.
>
> I plan to collect a number of Christmas pics and add them as they 
> become available.
>
> I'm seekingr some files/ tapes that may exist that are from WX reports 
> that used the weather service fonts. I'd like to create a couple of 
> MP3 files so we can museum demo. An M15 with the fonts would be a nice 
> find, too.
>
> 73, John W1AN
>
> On 23-Apr-26 23:35, Joe Clanin via GreenKeys wrote:
>>  >I suspect that it would be faster to try hand transcription, as 
>> awful as that job sounds.
>>
>> Luckily, there's still quite a bit of time before Christmas.
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 6:07 PM Jones, Douglas W via GreenKeys 
>> <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net <mailto:greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     From: Chuck Rehor -- Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2026 5:52 PM
>>      > Can we get the two JPG's as text files so we can send to our 
>> TTY's?
>>
>>     I wonder if any of today's generally good OCR tools could
>>     successfully don this conversion.  I suspect that it would be faster
>>     to try hand transcription, as awful as that job sounds. Someone did
>>     it 50 years ago to make the originals.
>>
>>     When I saw the title, however, my mind flashed back not to ASCII (or
>>     BAUDOT) art, but to the fax machine I remember seeing as a child
>>     when I visited the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.  They
>>     had two machines next to each other in what I recall looked like
>>     identical housings.  I'm pretty sure one was a Model 32 RO machine
>>     printing wire service text.  The other was a fax receiver printing
>>     weather maps.  Looking through the window on top, you could see a
>>     helical bar that was turning one turn per scan line behind the page
>>     while the paper advanced one scan line per turn of the helix.  The
>>     cloth ribbon ran full width between the page and bar that hammered
>>     the ribbon against the page and helix for each black pixel.
>>
>>     I stared at that machine for several minutes trying to figure out
>>     how it works.  The above description is from my memory so may be 
>> wrong.
>>
>>     In any case, that was definitely a TTY that could draw!
>>
>>                  Doug Jones
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