On (22 Dec 93) Roy Mcneill wrote to Brenton Vettoretti...



 RM>  BV> Hi Keith,

 RM> 

 RM>  KR> the mystery is solved, somehow thae terminate config file had got

 RM>  > grunged, and set the keyboard emulation to 3270. its little wonder

 RM>  > that i wasn't getting s.

 RM> 

 RM>  BV> Hey, that's great news. Now if you can only find the problem

 RM> behind

 RM>  BV> the stripping of your SHIFTED keystrokes :)

 RM> 

 RM> Have a bit of sympathy for the guy, Brenton. Keith's so ancient

 RM> that he runs a Teletype. He's souped it up over the years with

 RM> quicker motors and fine balancing until it runs at 9600. I'm told

 RM> you have to wear safety glasses when the thing is running, because

 RM> if it jams, steel bits can come flying out at all angles. He tried

 RM> to run it at 14400 once, using a snazzy liquid nitrogen cooled

 RM> superconducting motor salvaged from Lawrence Livermore labs, but

 RM> one of the big cams started to go transsonic, and the shockwaves

 RM> upset some of the lighter pawls.

 RM> 

 RM> Anyway, these TTYs only got uppercase. Since using ALL CAPS is

 RM> pretty rude, he's got this uppercase bit stripper built up around a

 RM> DC motor armature running synchronously with the main shaft, with

 RM> the commutator segment corresponding to bit 5 disconnected (feed

 RM> the bitsream in one one brush, pull it out from the other). A whole

 RM> mess of mercury wetted reed relays handles the steering logic and

 RM> the exceptions (like "[" and "{"). This system
can only work

 RM> character by character, so starting sentences with caps is a tad

 RM> difficult.



shit, i bin sussed       8-)



                keith



... Wanted: horses head. No questions asked.



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