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Gordon Marx wrote: >On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:39:01 -0500, Bill Horne <bill at horne.net> wrote: > > >>Try a model 19 Teletype, buster! The kind where the keytops could be >>twisted off and moved to differenct keys any time the crew wanted! >> >> > >Wait, you had keys? I had to lick the wires to make the connections. >Then I had to give presentations with a scorched tongue. > > > Easy. Freshman-level. Nay, Bush League. _I_ had to send PERFECT Baudot code to a Model 19, using a STRAIGHT telegraph key, at 60 words per minute for five minutes, with no errors, in order to graduate the course. Top _that_!! Bill "Unshift On Space" Horne
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