Comments on: A Silent Key http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/879 Jason Scott's Weblog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:59:02 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jason Scott http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/879/comment-page-1#comment-3174 Jason Scott Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:53:24 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=879#comment-3174 Chuck, I appreciate you taking the time to write in! Consider writing about your experiences and posting them! Chuck, I appreciate you taking the time to write in! Consider writing about your experiences and posting them!

]]> By: Chuck Langlois http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/879/comment-page-1#comment-3173 Chuck Langlois Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:32:30 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=879#comment-3173 Just stumbled on your web site by chance. I was a Teletype technician with the U.S. Air force from 1966 to 1970. While stationed at Dover AFB, in Delaware, I remember a tech from a base in England sent a tty picture of the Sistine Chapel on Christmas eve that took almost 12 hours to come through at 60 wpm. Remember this was Baudot code coming in live. I wish we had saved the tape but it was lost after the Com Center commander told us to trash them. Just stumbled on your web site by chance. I was a Teletype technician with the U.S. Air force from 1966 to 1970. While stationed at Dover AFB, in Delaware, I remember a tech from a base in England sent a tty picture of the Sistine Chapel on Christmas eve that took almost 12 hours to come through at 60 wpm. Remember this was Baudot code coming in live. I wish we had saved the tape but it was lost after the Com Center commander told us to trash them.

]]> By: Fred Hatfield K8VDU http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/879/comment-page-1#comment-3172 Fred Hatfield K8VDU Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:57:25 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=879#comment-3172 I came from the same era as John Sheetz, and in fact, while employed at Western Electric during the same time, I was in contact with him and exchanged many of the ASCII art documents shown in your photos. I am very pleased that you have documented this phase of ham radio/teletype development since it was my fascination with thess pre-digital explorations that led to my career of Electrical Engineering. I, too, have a large library of these ASCII documents and even authored an article in RTTY magazine on creating them on paper tape character-by-character with a home made manual entry device. I have the BBS documentary also, it is a wonderful production. My Fidonet BBS, "The Digital Cottage" is STILL up and running and although now outpaced by the Internet has been maintained for nostalgic reasons. Thanks for your perceptive work and wonderful website!! Fred. I came from the same era as John Sheetz, and in
fact, while employed at Western Electric during
the same time, I was in contact with him and exchanged many of the ASCII art documents shown in your photos.

I am very pleased that you have documented this phase of ham radio/teletype development since it was my fascination with thess pre-digital explorations that led to my career of Electrical Engineering. I, too, have a large library of these ASCII documents and even authored an article in RTTY magazine on creating them on paper tape character-by-character with a home made manual entry device.

I have the BBS documentary also, it is a wonderful production. My Fidonet BBS, “The Digital Cottage” is STILL up and running and although now outpaced by the Internet has been maintained for nostalgic reasons.

Thanks for your perceptive work and wonderful website!!

Fred.

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