BV> Hi Keith,

 KR> the mystery is solved, somehow thae terminate config file had got
 > grunged, and set the keyboard emulation to 3270. its little wonder
 > that i wasn't getting s.

 BV> Hey, that's great news. Now if you can only find the problem behind
 BV> the stripping of your SHIFTED keystrokes :)

Have a bit of sympathy for the guy, Brenton. Keith's so ancient
that he runs a Teletype. He's souped it up over the years with
quicker motors and fine balancing until it runs at 9600. I'm told
you have to wear safety glasses when the thing is running, because
if it jams, steel bits can come flying out at all angles. He tried
to run it at 14400 once, using a snazzy liquid nitrogen cooled
superconducting motor salvaged from Lawrence Livermore labs, but
one of the big cams started to go transsonic, and the shockwaves
upset some of the lighter pawls.

Anyway, these TTYs only got uppercase. Since using ALL CAPS is
pretty rude, he's got this uppercase bit stripper built up around a
DC motor armature running synchronously with the main shaft, with
the commutator segment corresponding to bit 5 disconnected (feed
the bitsream in one one brush, pull it out from the other). A whole
mess of mercury wetted reed relays handles the steering logic and
the exceptions (like "[" and "{"). This system can only work
character by character, so starting sentences with caps is a tad
difficult.

cheers


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