[plt-scheme] slideshow, sound

[Richard Cleis]

In those days, I didn't have a computer; stations on the other end of  
the radio implemented things like bulletins boards with Altairs or  
whatever they had.  The internet came along and stole all of that  
fun :)  Nowadays, one can get even get solutions to homework problems  
without having to decode the gibberish caused by a teletype machine  
incorrectly being in the "figures" state instead of the "letters"  
state. (The machines were only 5 bits; a static crash at the wrong  
moment could create amusing text.)

rac


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>
> Way cool, Noel.  And thanks all for your suggestions.
>
> Hendrik:  I too remember using a KSR-33.  KSR = Keyboard Send  
> Receive.  ASR = Auto Send Receive.  As far as I can tell, the ASR  
> version had an integreted paper tape reader and punch.  All the  
> ones I ever used had that, so I guess they were ASRs.
>
> Richard:  Not knowing what a Model-19 was, I found this:
>   http://railroad-signaling.com/tty/M19.jpg
> Listening to this...
>   http://railroad-signaling.com/tty/m19.mpg
> I remember how I used to think those teletypes were marvels because  
> they could type so much faster than I ever could.
> That reminded me of Chuck Adams, morse code communicator  
> extraordinaire.
>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bmiEkguQqk
>

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