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On Jan 6, 1:38*am, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote: No. *I am Lord Emporer of All I Survey ..." Tom, maybe you need to get out of the house more often. |
Cymbals and stuff
On Jan 7, 11:14*am, Tim wrote:
On Jan 6, 1:38*am, Tom Francis - SWSports wrote: No. *I am Lord Emporer of All I Survey ..." Tom, maybe you need to get out of the house more often. Not today, we have an ice storm and branches coming down all over the place! |
Cymbals and stuff
"D.Duck" wrote in message ... "Calif Bill" wrote in message m... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... "Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in message ... On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:06:17 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote: Worked for Teletype Corp that eventually morphed into Bell Labs and moved on out to Naperville. Many friends of mine were caught up in the Lucent fiasco. I ever tell you my Dad had a beast of a Teletype machine in his radio shack? Surplus military thing - bigger than a freakin' washing machine. My Navy experience started out as a Radioman and I was among 3 of the first non-rated people to attend the Navy's teletype repair school in Norfolk. ( I later converted to electronics in a Navy technical education program). Anyway, the Navy method of teaching stuff is sometimes amazing. I had never seen a 100 wpm teletype machine in my life. At the end of the six week school, I (and all the other graduates) could completely disassemble the thing and it's hundreds of parts including gears, clutches, pawls, shafts, etc., spread out all over the place and then reassemble it, make all the necessary adjustments and it worked. Thinking about modern computers, one can see the direct relationship and evolution of Morse code to 8 bit teletype machines to this new, 64 bit Vista powered computer. It's an amazing advancement of technology to witness in 40 years or so. Eisboch First big KSR33 I saw when I first got out of high school I worked in the Western Electric warehouse. Guy is taking down a KSR33 from the top of the racks and somebody forgot to strap it to the pallet. Takes a 20-25' nose dive to spread parts everywhere. Cool. Later NCR use a light duty receive only teletype as the console printer on the CPU. Ran 24/7. We got good at rebuilding those units. The oilite bushings would partly cut the main shaft about every 2 months at most. Was originally designed to turn on only when a message came in. Bad engineering. Hmmm. Sounds strange. When I worked for Teletype Corp we had M33's running for years idling, with occasional printing. it was design for light duty printing, not light duty power on. do not remember the model. Been 40 years. But was designed to turn on when a message came in. |
Cymbals and stuff
"Calif Bill" wrote in message m... "D.Duck" wrote in message ... "Calif Bill" wrote in message m... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... "Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in message ... On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:06:17 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote: Worked for Teletype Corp that eventually morphed into Bell Labs and moved on out to Naperville. Many friends of mine were caught up in the Lucent fiasco. I ever tell you my Dad had a beast of a Teletype machine in his radio shack? Surplus military thing - bigger than a freakin' washing machine. My Navy experience started out as a Radioman and I was among 3 of the first non-rated people to attend the Navy's teletype repair school in Norfolk. ( I later converted to electronics in a Navy technical education program). Anyway, the Navy method of teaching stuff is sometimes amazing. I had never seen a 100 wpm teletype machine in my life. At the end of the six week school, I (and all the other graduates) could completely disassemble the thing and it's hundreds of parts including gears, clutches, pawls, shafts, etc., spread out all over the place and then reassemble it, make all the necessary adjustments and it worked. Thinking about modern computers, one can see the direct relationship and evolution of Morse code to 8 bit teletype machines to this new, 64 bit Vista powered computer. It's an amazing advancement of technology to witness in 40 years or so. Eisboch First big KSR33 I saw when I first got out of high school I worked in the Western Electric warehouse. Guy is taking down a KSR33 from the top of the racks and somebody forgot to strap it to the pallet. Takes a 20-25' nose dive to spread parts everywhere. Cool. Later NCR use a light duty receive only teletype as the console printer on the CPU. Ran 24/7. We got good at rebuilding those units. The oilite bushings would partly cut the main shaft about every 2 months at most. Was originally designed to turn on only when a message came in. Bad engineering. Hmmm. Sounds strange. When I worked for Teletype Corp we had M33's running for years idling, with occasional printing. it was design for light duty printing, not light duty power on. do not remember the model. Been 40 years. But was designed to turn on when a message came in. Designed to turn the motor on. |
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