Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sat, 01 Jun 91 13:16:03 CDT From: "Roy M. Silvernail" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Free Teletypes Message-ID: Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN 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 416, Message 6 of 8 Lines: 36 floyd@ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson) writes: [about teletype machines and radio stations] > 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. When I was with Alaskan Forces radio in the mid 70's, the newsroom had five teletypes, with four running all the time. (AP, UPI, Reuters and the AFRTS newswire compilation) The poor news guy had to put up with it all the time. I don't recall the newscasts using teletype noise in the background there, as the news was actually delivered from an ajoining studio. Curiously enough, the simplest solution (of placing a mike in the teletype room) wouldn't have worked, since three of the four wires made their hourly local breaks at the top of the hour. At an earlier job with a Nome radio station, the teletype was in the tiny news studio, albeit inside a sound-deadening casing. The AP fed that machine, and the teletype in the background was real during newscasts. The same unpredictability about local breaks was evident, though ... sometimes, the teletype would be completely silent until the last seconds of the news. (This has strayed from telecom a bit, so I shan't rant on) Roy M. Silvernail |+| roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu [Moderator's Note: In the public telegraph offices of yester-year there would be usually a half-dozen or more machines. On rare instances, all would be silent for maybe ten or fifteen seconds; then there would be a soft whirring noise for a few seconds as one of the machines came on, and the click/clack would start again. PAT]