2 Dec
1998
2 Dec
'98
10:50 a.m.
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
2 Dec
2 Dec
10:56 a.m.
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
12:04 p.m.
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
TDDs (Telecommunication Device for the Deaf), aka TTY, ARE just a simple
terminal. However, they have (with few exceptions) stuck with Baudot
(Murray), while everyone else upgraded to ASCII.
What speed is it?
What code?
What protocol?
--
Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com
XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com
2210 Sixth St. (510) 644-9366
Berkeley, CA 94710-2219
4:16 p.m.
As to speed, protocol, etc. I won't know until I either find some
documentation or get a chance to change the phone jack to try it out.
Thanks
Colan
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
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
TDDs (Telecommunication Device for the Deaf), aka TTY, ARE just a simple
terminal. However, they have (with few exceptions) stuck with Baudot
(Murray), while everyone else upgraded to ASCII.
What speed is it?
What code?
What protocol?
--
Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com
XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com
2210 Sixth St. (510) 644-9366
Berkeley, CA 94710-2219
3:45 p.m.
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.
Does this have a light brown and white motif? Keys are brown? I have a
picture of this in a data processing book I just picked up that shows a
woman typing on it. She doesn't look blind. There's also an acoustically
coupled modem attached with a phone handset plug into it.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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3:52 p.m.
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
Does this have a light brown and white motif? Keys
are brown? I have a
picture of this in a data processing book I just picked up that shows a
woman typing on it. She doesn't look blind. There's also an acoustically
coupled modem attached with a phone handset plug into it.
She doesn't look blind? Wrong sense organ, Sam.
-- Doug
4:46 p.m.
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
Uh, she doesn't taste blind?
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Does this have a light brown and white motif?
Keys are brown? I have a
picture of this in a data processing book I just picked up that shows a
woman typing on it. She doesn't look blind. There's also an acoustically
coupled modem attached with a phone handset plug into it.
She doesn't look blind? Wrong sense organ, Sam.
4:20 p.m.
Yes, thats the one. Theres no acoustic modem attatched. This looks like
its internal. Rats, I'd love to play with an acoustic modem again. I'd
have to drag out the old phone though...
thanks
Colan
Does this have a light brown and white motif? Keys are brown? I have a
picture of this in a data processing book I just picked up that shows a
woman typing on it. She doesn't look blind. There's also an acoustically
coupled modem attached with a phone handset plug into it.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0
See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details!
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