[vcf-midatlantic] Interest in Baudot teletype Model 15, 28ASR for a VCF East 2024 exhibit?

[Bill Degnan]

I have not read every message in this thread, but if it has not already
been said, incorporating a computer into a tty exhibit would be ideal, and
to add a modem that connects to a remote computer or vintage transmission
device, perhaps a partnership with the radio museum that also has this kind
of equipment.  A nice way to collaborate with the radio museum folks.
Bill

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024, 7:43 PM W2HX via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> I still regularly use my 28ASR and KSR. Every Saturday morning 9AM
> (eastern time) several of us from Georgia to Vermont and sometimes Maine)
> get on 7087 USB, 850 shift (ie +/- 425 Hz), 2000 Hz Center -  get together
> for some RATT fun (some of us use military equipment, military shifts and
> military abbreviation of radio teletype!). But all equipment is welcome
> including glass TTYs. So dust off your Commodore 64s and come join us!
>
> In case you're interested, here is a little video of my equipment
> running...if you wait you can see some internals and paper tape punching
> and reading.
> https://youtu.be/1lL_O1i1Ayg?si=tjCsZoDz-3a1rXMz&t=25
>
>
> 73 Eugene W2HX
> My Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@w2hx/videos
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces at lists.vcfed.org> On Behalf
> Of Daveyk021 via vcf-midatlantic
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2024 1:11 PM
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> Cc: Daveyk021 <daveyk021 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Interest in Baudot teletype Model 15, 28ASR
> for a VCF East 2024 exhibit?
>
> In the early 80s, I had a full size model 28 ASR.  I had it interfaced to
> my 2 meter rig in Harrisburg, PA, when I was going to school there.  There
> was an expert on them that lived in York, PA at the time.  I cannot
> remember his first name, Dave I think.  He helped me a lot with them.  Back
> then, I could tear them apart and "mechanically program" them to respond to
> "pic" and my call sign.  So it could sit there and chatter without printing
> unless either of those two words came through.   I think Dave got me a lot
> of blank decoding keys that were programmed by breaking a finger off (I
> honestly don't remember, maybe it was bending the fingers).  I could have
> it save a joke picture (we would call them a meme today) to paper tape and
> re-send it back out via paper tape.
>
> It was fully functional and worked perfectly.  Then after school I got my
> first (and only job) and life happened.  It was in my brother's basement.
> He wanted it out and I didn't have room or time for it.  We managed to get
> it out of the basement and in his van (the fricking thing was huge and
> heavy).  It went to a local scrap yard here in Lewistown, PA.  I mean, back
> then, it was old, I had a dot matrix computer printer and a computer.  Who
> would ever want that old junk?  Duh!!! It makes me sick thinking of it
> going to a scrap yard along with my Model 19 and model 33 ASR. Sad.  The
> same thing happened with, now, vintage computers I had in the early 2000s.
> I can still my Model 4 and H89 in the hole in the local dump.
>
> So sad, and now I retry to relive part of my earlier life by fixing
> vintage puters.
>
> So, YES, I want to see a fully functional Model 28 ASR at the fest and
> chat about them.
>
> Dave
>
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 5:44 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
>
> > Someone is asking if there is interest in an exhibit at VCF East 2024
> > with working baudot teletypes. Model 15, Model 28ASR. What say you?
> >
> > Jeff Brace
> > VCF National Board Member Chairman & Vice President Vintage Computer
> > Festival East Showrunner VCF Mid-Atlantic Event Manager Vintage
> > Computer Federation is a 501c3 charity https://vcfed.org/
> > <http://www.vcfed.org/> jeffrey at vcfed.org
> >
>