a golden oldy,the teletype

[rbh]

Anyone remember routing codes???
and the sound of the carraige flying up and down?

 

[JB]

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Never used one, but I sure remember the sounds.

 

[mphy98]

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We were cleaning out the basement and bringing a lot of stuff to love inc. One of the items was an old underwood typewriter.(non electric). My 15 year old son asked how it worked and what was it. I am only 56 and just shudder sometimes when I think of the things that they will not know of in there lifetimes. IE corded phones, slide rules, gas pumped by others at a SERVICE station, Pharmacists that were more like doctors and the like.

 

[Bob_VT]

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You mean like an old Ratt Rig on a Gama Goat

 

[rbh]

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you mean like an old ratt rig on a gama goat :d

cratz??

 

[j_martin]

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FSK modulation, two receivers, and a comparator with a little 1 inch CRT in it for setup.

At 100 Words per minute (Military) the machines themselves would beat themselves to dust in about 2 months. Civilian machines at 60 WPM would last a long time, but they were still noisy.

Man, am I getting old or what.

 

[rbh]

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Here are two things I remember from my telop intro course.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP9LWUIWvpU



Tape reading, just not with the Imac.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YilYg8ZSXA

 

[lckstckn2smknbrls]

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My dad worked for Teletype from before the Korean war and was stationed in Hawaii fixing them for the army. He retired from Teletype/ATT some time in the 90's.

 

[Deadwood]

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gas pumped by others at a SERVICE station,

In Oregon it's law that you DON'T pump your own gas, even at the mom & pop stores.........keeps people working..

How about telephones?? Been through steppers, crossbar, various digital switches and now (unfortunately) IP softswitches.

 

[Cofe]

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I never wanted, or was given the opportunity to use one of those things. I do remember the evening news with Walter Cronkite and the sound of teletypes smokin in the background..... I must be getting old too.....

 

[eastont]

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When I worked at the Toronto Telegram that and the sound of reporters pounding out their stories on Olivetti typewriters drove me crazy.

And yes, I am getting old....LOL

 

[dwco5051]

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Back in the 60's when I lived in a town in Southwestern Pennsylvania several of the bars and bookie joints had teletypes out in plain view to keep up on the racing results, etc. Can remember the tape rolling out onto the floor. This was many, many years before off track betting became legal in the state.

 

[Adjuster]

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How about those ticker tape machines from the 1920's era I believe? Commonly associated with Wall Street and the stock market. And as seen in the movie Little Orphan Annie as well as several others of the time period. Did those machines print readable type or was it some kind of code you had to be familiar with? Those ticker tape machines are icons for the period television shows and movies. Always looked pretty cool in the big glass bells.

 

[dwco5051]

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Now that adjuster has jogged my memory I do recall that it was a ticker tape machine that the race results came in on. We had teletype in our office plus a Friden punch tape machine that transmitted inventory data over Western Union lines to our main office with a roll of punched paper tape at our site as a "backup."

 

[keninaz]

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Yes unfortunately as mentioned by others.
I was trained as a radio operator after being drafted into the Army in '66.
I found out in the second week of ten in training that if your CW speed was at a certain point they would ship you off to Radio Teletype School in the 6th week I think it was. I wanted no part of that so I purposely did not tell them that I had been a ham radio op and already knew CW.
So after all the rest shipped to Fort Gordon from Fort Ord that CW just came to me and I became a radio operator.
But it did not work long. When I got to my first duty station at Fort Huachuca, AZ the first thing that outfit did was cross train me into radio teletype op! I hated punching tape~~~boring! And going to the field with a 46D or 26D truck mounted vans was not my idea of fun, although it was better than Viet Nam at the time where most of the radio ops went from school.
It did not last long however as when they discovered I knew radios they made me a radio operator instructor and I never had to operate a teletype system again.

 

[bassman284]

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Crank phones. I know I'm not the only one here who remembers them.