No eye rolling here. I'd have picked it up too!
I would love to get my hands on hard-copy terminal.
(Still kicking myself for not grabbing a free DecWriter III several
years ago).
--Jason
On 05/22/2017 10:44 AM, Jim Brain via cctalk wrote:
OK, go ahead and roll your eyes at me, but I was Dayton Hamvention
last weekend, and there was a lonely Teletype Model 43 sitting in the
flea market (on the ground, no less) for free, and so I decided I
needed it in my life.
I know it's not considered a "true" teletype, because it's essentially
a little uC, a KB, and a little dot matrix printer, but I will wear
the stigma of shame of not owning a "proper" mechanical model 33. I
got home last night, and the unit fires up and works (well, in local
mode. Docs claim it is rs232 out the back, but could not coax
anything from my PC to it yet), though the ribbon has seen better
days. I used a bit of WD-40 to free up the ink, and so things are
legible now.
Not sure I need help yet (did not do much debugging yet on rs232), but
I see the ribbons are no longer available. Thus, I am wondering if
anyone has a spare one for it, or knows of someone who can restore
this ribbon (looks like it needs a new polyester ribbon and the
internal foam roller looks like it will fall apart if I try to rinse
it out and re-ink it)
I know it's a long shot to ask, but I figure there was no harm in
inquiring, and I believe making a home for a model 43 is not entirely
without value. :-)
Jim
