<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>In those days, I didn't have a computer; stations on the other end of the radio implemented things like bulletins boards with Altairs or whatever they had. The internet came along and stole all of that fun :) Nowadays, one can get even get solutions to homework problems without having to decode the gibberish caused by a teletype machine incorrectly being in the "figures" state instead of the "letters" state. (The machines were only 5 bits; a static crash at the wrong moment could create amusing text.)</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>rac</div><div> </div><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"></font></div></blockquote></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">...</font></div> </blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Way cool, Noel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And thanks all for your suggestions.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hendrik:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I too remember using a KSR-33.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>KSR = Keyboard Send Receive.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>ASR = Auto Send Receive.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As far as I can tell, the ASR version had an integreted paper tape reader and punch.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>All the ones I ever used had that, so I guess they were ASRs.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Richard:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Not knowing what a Model-19 was, I found this:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://railroad-signaling.com/tty/M19.jpg">http://railroad-signaling.com/tty/M19.jpg</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Listening to this...</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://railroad-signaling.com/tty/m19.mpg">http://railroad-signaling.com/tty/m19.mpg</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I remember how I used to think those teletypes were marvels because they could type so much faster than I ever could.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">That reminded me of Chuck Adams, morse code communicator extraordinaire.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bmiEkguQqk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bmiEkguQqk</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>