These were not really pictures,but rather the "image" was made entirely by
characters on a "real"teletype machine keyboard.In the '60s
there were a number of these would show up at various times.Xmas themes
around the holiday,some pretty good images of Playboy centerfolds also made
the rounds.
These had nothing to do with computers,the person making the image would cut
a tape on his machine.The image could be sent without interuption.This was
real RTTY,no computers.
I would think a few old timers would still have some tapes in their
collection.
Joe
W7KQU

In rec.radio.amateur.dx Joe O'Connell wrote:
These were not really pictures,but rather the "image" was made entirely by
characters on a "real"teletype machine keyboard.In the '60s
there were a number of these would show up at various times.Xmas themes
around the holiday,some pretty good images of Playboy centerfolds also made
the rounds.
These had nothing to do with computers,the person making the image would cut
a tape on his machine.The image could be sent without interuption.This was
real RTTY,no computers.
I would think a few old timers would still have some tapes in their
collection.

You can find them in:
news:rec.arts.ascii
news:alt.ascii-arts

Peter Lemken
DF5JT
Berlin

--
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!"

"Joe O'Connell" wrote in message
...
These were not really pictures,but rather the "image" was made entirely by
characters on a "real"teletype machine keyboard.In the '60s
there were a number of these would show up at various times.Xmas themes
around the holiday,some pretty good images of Playboy centerfolds also
made
the rounds.
These had nothing to do with computers,the person making the image would
cut
a tape on his machine.The image could be sent without interuption.This was
real RTTY,no computers.
I would think a few old timers would still have some tapes in their
collection.
Joe
W7KQU


Hello, Joe

Been there, done that - both from KG6AAY on Guam and in the various teletype
rooms in the Navy back in the 60s. Around Christmas time, you'd see a lot
of santa and the reindeer done in ascii graphics.

As to real RTTY, believe me you wouldn't want to be in one of those small
rooms on a ship. Metal deck, metal bulkheads, metal overhead, and over a
dozen teletypes clanking away. It was loud.



73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA

Hi Jim,
Also been there,was the Operations Officer on a USCG ship and would
occaisionly fill a seat in the Radio Room on RTTY and the 500 Kc cw
position when the radiomen were shorthanded.
just to help out.
73
Joe
W7KQU

It took a heck of a long time and a lot of paper to get those tapes right.
Remember how we used to roll them around the fingers? Then hang them on a
peg on the wall? Yep.....dang I've been around a while.

Dan/W4NTI

"Joe O'Connell" wrote in message
...
These were not really pictures,but rather the "image" was made entirely by
characters on a "real"teletype machine keyboard.In the '60s
there were a number of these would show up at various times.Xmas themes
around the holiday,some pretty good images of Playboy centerfolds also
made
the rounds.
These had nothing to do with computers,the person making the image would
cut
a tape on his machine.The image could be sent without interuption.This was
real RTTY,no computers.
I would think a few old timers would still have some tapes in their
collection.
Joe
W7KQU

"Dan" wrote in message
ink.net...
It took a heck of a long time and a lot of paper to get those tapes right.
Remember how we used to roll them around the fingers? Then hang them on
a peg on the wall? Yep.....dang I've been around a while.

Dan/W4NTI

And then the only source was Telex tapes, then that went to glass and the
supplies dried up. Then the prepunched papers got brittle and broke and we
didn't have them backed up on cassette tape (remember that?)

I still have a few pictures in a scrapbook. The only way to reproduce them
these days would be to photograph them, and I should do that before they
expire too. I shed a tear the day my 60 year old antique Model 15, 14 Typing
Reperf and 15TD went to the tip.

Brad VK2QQ

"nana" wrote in message
...

"Dan" wrote in message
ink.net...
It took a heck of a long time and a lot of paper to get those tapes
right. Remember how we used to roll them around the fingers? Then hang
them on a peg on the wall? Yep.....dang I've been around a while.

Dan/W4NTI

And then the only source was Telex tapes, then that went to glass and the
supplies dried up. Then the prepunched papers got brittle and broke and we
didn't have them backed up on cassette tape (remember that?)

I still have a few pictures in a scrapbook. The only way to reproduce them
these days would be to photograph them, and I should do that before they
expire too. I shed a tear the day my 60 year old antique Model 15, 14
Typing Reperf and 15TD went to the tip.

Brad VK2QQ


I think I was the last active ham on RTTY in the mid 80s with a Model 19 set
actually on the air. I replaced it with a TRS80 and some IC chips. Somehow
it just wasn't the same..Especially missing were the LF CR bummpty bump bump
ding ding.

Dan/W4NTI