Awhile back I was watching some late night talk show, and they had a contest between a teletype and Twitter. They brought our 2 teenage girls and 2 old western union telegraph operators to see who could send messages faster. They host gave them a message to send, some short poem, and the telegraph guys won.😅
I am a retired BT engineer. A Radio Amateur who still uses Morse Code. To be able to operate HF I took my 12 wpm send and receive exam at BT Portishead Radio (Sadly closed and demolished) really enjoying the Telegraph History videos. 73 Phil dit dit.
I didn't know there was a station at Portishead. I had to go all the way down to Bilgewater to take my test. That was a very long time ago now though. Alas, I let my licence lapse some time after leaving the UK, so I am no longer G4PRR (and not even G6GSK).
@@NealNelson Hello Neal, I was one of the last few to take it in 1985 before it closed. I am sure you could reinstate G4PRR I know a couple of VK Radio Amateurs still hold their G3 callsigns. We took the class B licence around the same time I was G6UDY :-) I have come back to CW after a 32 year lapse with older brain matter hi hi but really enjoying it. 73 Phil G0BVD
Used to service those machines during 1960s, claimed to myself I could take it apart and put it back together without using service handbook. Noisy machines!
Mitch, The first time I used a Teletyper was when in a School Holiday I was out with my dad and he was called in on an emergency repair to a lithographic copier at a company that was above Ardens Animations, so we walked into reception (Desk at the Door) and there was display cabinets of Morph, the walkers crips bloke, sledge hammer music video head. We headed upstairs to the art department where I was sat in front of a teletype out of the way and five blokes that headed into a darkroom to work out a very intermittent fault with the camera, anyway one of the guys came out and then told me all about teletype and how they got scrips and words over the phone and cut and paste from the real type on the paper, yes cut words on paper with a blade and lay them out and stuck them to a board so my dads camera could take a picture for printing. Anyway my point I use a teletype during a school holiday at the Art department (sort of) at Ardens Animation at time after Morph but before Wallice and Grommet. I wish I still had the pink tape.
In the same vein as this stuff, I have always wondered how those old stock tickers worked. You know the ones. They spit out a long piece of paper tape kind of like that last thing you showed here. You guys should look into those. That would be awesome. I think that's where "ticker tape parade" comes from. They would throw the ticker tape out the windows so they'd float down in the air during a parade, right? Stupid autocorrect thinks it is smarter than I am and thinks it knows better than me and keeps changing ticker to ticket. No, I typed ticker because I meant it. Stop changing it.
When I was a kid I did some mainframe programming using a teletype connected by a 150baud acoustic coupler modem on a Honeywell owned by General Electric. I learned I can read up to about 2400baud speed before I started falling behind :)
Awhile back I was watching some late night talk show, and they had a contest between a teletype and Twitter. They brought our 2 teenage girls and 2 old western union telegraph operators to see who could send messages faster. They host gave them a message to send, some short poem, and the telegraph guys won.😅
Tuesday just got the best! hell yea! Mitch Tuesdays
I am a retired BT engineer. A Radio Amateur who still uses Morse Code. To be able to operate HF I took my 12 wpm send and receive exam at BT Portishead Radio (Sadly closed and demolished) really enjoying the Telegraph History videos. 73 Phil dit dit.
73 on5gs 😊
I didn't know there was a station at Portishead. I had to go all the way down to Bilgewater to take my test. That was a very long time ago now though. Alas, I let my licence lapse some time after leaving the UK, so I am no longer G4PRR (and not even G6GSK).
@@NealNelson Hello Neal, I was one of the last few to take it in 1985 before it closed. I am sure you could reinstate G4PRR I know a couple of VK Radio Amateurs still hold their G3 callsigns. We took the class B licence around the same time I was G6UDY :-) I have come back to CW after a 32 year lapse with older brain matter hi hi but really enjoying it. 73 Phil G0BVD
A creed 7 teleprinter, that takes me back.
Used to service those machines during 1960s, claimed to myself I could take it apart and put it back together without using service handbook. Noisy machines!
Fantastic!
Please carry on with these highly entertaining and informative shorts
there great.
Mitch, The first time I used a Teletyper was when in a School Holiday I was out with my dad and he was called in on an emergency repair to a lithographic copier at a company that was above Ardens Animations, so we walked into reception (Desk at the Door) and there was display cabinets of Morph, the walkers crips bloke, sledge hammer music video head. We headed upstairs to the art department where I was sat in front of a teletype out of the way and five blokes that headed into a darkroom to work out a very intermittent fault with the camera, anyway one of the guys came out and then told me all about teletype and how they got scrips and words over the phone and cut and paste from the real type on the paper, yes cut words on paper with a blade and lay them out and stuck them to a board so my dads camera could take a picture for printing. Anyway my point I use a teletype during a school holiday at the Art department (sort of) at Ardens Animation at time after Morph but before Wallice and Grommet. I wish I still had the pink tape.
Awesome stuff :)
Learned Morse code when I was 14, that was over 54 years ago.
CQ CQ CQ Morse code developed a lot of abbreviations and shorthand for exactly the reason you demonstrate at the end 73
Well done!!
Can't wait until we get into enciphered radio teleprinters.
Until next time, LYKV ADR STUBCRIPE.
You need more time on this channel. :D Do extended cuts of this series.
Cool
Morse code… ta daaah gets an A!
The only Morse I know is SOS, and HP (from the sauce ads on TV).
Most people also know SMS (from the sms-tone of the old Nokia phones)
@@Zatacke I never had a Nokia, so didn’t know this, but now I do. Thanks!
In the same vein as this stuff, I have always wondered how those old stock tickers worked. You know the ones. They spit out a long piece of paper tape kind of like that last thing you showed here. You guys should look into those. That would be awesome. I think that's where "ticker tape parade" comes from. They would throw the ticker tape out the windows so they'd float down in the air during a parade, right?
Stupid autocorrect thinks it is smarter than I am and thinks it knows better than me and keeps changing ticker to ticket. No, I typed ticker because I meant it. Stop changing it.
When I was a kid I did some mainframe programming using a teletype connected by a 150baud acoustic coupler modem on a Honeywell owned by General Electric. I learned I can read up to about 2400baud speed before I started falling behind :)
Didn't the military in WW2 teach men morse code using rude-rhymes?(mnemonics)
This video should have been four times longer, and gotten into the technology used by each of the machines. Too brief an overview.
How many have noticed that the letter V in morse is the same as Beethoven's 5th symphony, V being the roman numeral for 5 ;)
Everyone who ever learned morse
Good job. Wish there was more with USA twx and western union.