On Friday (02/22/2013 at 07:16PM +0000), Tony Duell wrote:
gibberish. I
seem to remember that it was also common practice for RTTY
operators to send something like "LTRS LTRS LTRS" when beginning a
message to make certain that the receiving end was in the correct mode.
It was (or is -- I can't believe there are no old telpritner enthusiasts
left :-)). In fact a lot of amateurs sent LTRS after a CR/LF to make sure
each line started i nthe right mode, just in case a character on the
previous line had been mangeld into FIGS
We are still here! There is mailing list and very active community
here,
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/greenkeys
and here,
http://www.baudot.net/tty-links.htm
When some of us aren't restoring DEC stuff, we're restoring Teletype
stuff.
I have a model 28 which I've recently restored and I intend to hook it
to my Altair 680b... so there! :-)
Chris
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Chris Elmquist N0JCF