On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Dave Caroline
<dave.thearchivist at gmail.com> wrote:
looks like I have to do some digging and maybe
scanning
http://www.collection.archivist.info/searchv10.php?searchv4page=1&errle…
is what I have somewhere at home
The titles there look interesting, but I can't tell if any of the
contents would apply specifically to the telephone circuits in the
type of unit I have. If you do dig out the paper docs and have time
to look over them, what I already have is the basic electrical and
mechanical docs for a 20mA ASR-33, but nothing to do with the modem or
telephone answer or dial circuits (one of the cool features of this
unit, which I tested 25 years ago, was to plug it in but leave it off
then to call it up from a computer (the ring would switch on the main
TTY motor, etc), send text to it (at 110 baud, of course), and send a
CTRL-D (EOT) which would shut it off again. AFAIK, this was standard
for, say, TTYs at a news bureau, but it was fascinating to me in the
early 1980s.
-ethan