You're both right. TTY's were used both as remote computer terminals and
as means for communication for the deaf.
-- Doug
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 cdrmool(a)interlog.com wrote:
Anyone know the story behind this? Its a small
keyboard connected to a
small thermal paper printer. It has an old 70's style phone jack
(at least the kind we used in Ontario Canada) coming out the back of the
printer. My father who found it says he thinks its one of the early
devices used by the deaf. I think it was probably just a simple
terminal.
Whose right? who gets to carve the christmas turkey this year?
colan