Restoring a Model 15 and a Model 14 Teletype
I love teletypes, which might seem like a weird thing for a vintage computing dude to say, but really, teletypes are just electromechanical data terminals! The communication protocol is a little different, and of course you’d have to match speeds, but it receives serial data and transmits serial data, it just does it with motors and contacts and spinny bits. And that makes them awesome.
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Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
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Chapters
0:00 A wild John appears
4:13 Disassembly
6:03 We found the current loop!
6:26 Cleaning
8:29 A very sad dashpot
11:17 Back to cleaning
12:13 What even is a teletype though?
14:01 How to send
17:15 How to receive
21:29 Final assembly
22:14 An oil bath
23:28 Checking the RPM
25:20 First test
26:08 Victory!
27:45 But wait, there’s more!
30:38 An oil bath… again
31:23 It took a while, but we got there
34:20 A gift for John
36:40 Baby bunny!