Siemens T100 Terminal with Paper Tape - Available

nico de jong nico at farumdata.dk
Thu Dec 9 04:21:10 CST 2021


Hello Dominique
If you send me your e-mail address, I can start with sending you the 
user manual, so you can what the software does
This software has an interface to i-telex.net, so you can use it for 
international chats
It also has a lot of other functions, but it would take too long to list 
it all here
Regards
Nico (OZ1BMC), formerly PTT telegraph operator

On 2021-12-09 11:14, Dominique Carlier via cctalk wrote:
> Oh great ! But a little bit noisy to use like that ;)
> Well, I'm interested by your software anyway !
>
> Dominique
>
> On 9/12/2021 11:00, nico de jong via cctalk wrote:
>> Dominique,
>> Well, that is in principle very easy.
>> You need a COM port (or simulator) and a little box converting RS232 
>> to 50 BPS serial.  Diagrams can be found everywhere. But you could 
>> also look at www.i-telex.net. This is a (primarily) german "band of 
>> brothers". They have set up an international of teleprinter users, so 
>> they can communicate through internet. Nice system, can recommend it.
>> If you have (or get) a special interest in teleprinters, I have the 
>> software for a teleprinter exchange, also interfacing to i-telex.net
>> In this way, you can have a complete telegraph office in your living 
>> room (more likely : a garage....)
>> 73, Nico
>>
>> On 2021-12-08 21:29, Dominique Carlier via cctalk wrote:
>>> The subject interests me because I have the same beast but which 
>>> only works in local mode. I currently don't know what is required to 
>>> send text in this monster through a computer
>>> Below is a link to a video of my machine in action:
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL-XU855C80
>>>
>>> Dominique
>>>
>>> On 8/12/2021 20:52, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>>>> No, it's 5 bit tape.  2 data bits, transport sprocket holes, 3 data 
>>>> bits -- top to bottom on the reader (right side), left to right on 
>>>> the punch (left side).
>>>>
>>>> DEC PDP-10 systems used six bit code internally but I don't 
>>>> remember those appearing on punched tape.  The punched tape 
>>>> machines I have seen with 6 channels are typesetting devices, from 
>>>> early tape operated Linotype machines (1940s vintage) to 1960s or 
>>>> 1970s era phototypesetters.  Those are upper/lower case.
>>>>
>>>>     paul
>>>>
>>>>> On Dec 8, 2021, at 2:23 PM, Mike Katz <bitwiz at 12bitsbest.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I thought I had recalled that Baudot was 5 bits but the paper tape 
>>>>> is 6 bits across and I don't know of any 6 bit character codes 
>>>>> except for DECs upper case only character set and even their paper 
>>>>> tape had 8 bits so I guessed Baudot.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 12/8/2021 1:16 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>>>>>> 5 bit; if it really were 6 bits it would typically be typesetting 
>>>>>> codes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That's a relative of the machine used as console terminal on 
>>>>>> Dutch Electrologica X8 computers; I recognize the "Iron cross" 
>>>>>> symbol, the figures shift character on the D key. But some of the 
>>>>>> other function codes have different labels so it isn't actually 
>>>>>> the same model.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The description I have says that the X8 console used CCITT-2, 
>>>>>> a.k.a., Baudot, code but with the bit order reversed.  And also 
>>>>>> that it used the all-zeroes code as a printable character rather 
>>>>>> than as non-printing fill.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     paul
>>
>>



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