Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Wed, 29 May 1991 12:15:34 GMT From: Floyd Davidson Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Free Teletypes Message-ID: Organization: University of Alaska Institute of Marine Science Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 411, Message 9 of 12 Lines: 28 In article Dan_Jacobson@ihlpz.att.com writes: > On 28 May 91 01:29:41 GMT, Stan@li.psi.com (Stanfield L. Smith) said: >> Model 15 teletypes - Newswire vintage, 5 level baudot, gears for any > By the way, is it true that some "Newsradio" stations nowadays just > pipe in teletype clicking to make their newsroom more newsy sounding? > E.g., WBBM-AM in Chicago has this sound. It was usually "canned" sound. Nobody would really want to work around that racket. The tty machines in well designed places were in rooms with sound proofing, and nobody had to listen to them. (At least that is the way it was in the middle 60's when I worked around that kinda stuff. Maybe earlier than that it was real.) Floyd L. Davidson | Alascom, Inc. pays me, |UA Fairbanks Institute of Marine floyd@ims.alaska.edu| but not for opinions. |Science suffers me as a guest. [Moderator's Note: In the old days of Western Union public telegraph offices, the clerks and 'telegraphers' had to hear that noise all day long from several machines behind the counter where they served the public who came in to send messages. PAT]