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! And the Teletype corporation was an unstoppable juggernaut in the field of digital, serial communication for something like 50 years. One of their very last efforts at a printing data terminal was the Model 43, which is a beautiful little Teletype. There just so happens to be one here on the desk, so let’s see if we can get it to work!
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Intro Music adapted from:
Artist: The Runaway Five
Title: The Shinra Shuffle
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Chapters
0:00 A short (and mostly accurate) history of Teletype
6:30 Teardown of the Model 43
8:02 A cautionary tale about BiMOS
9:39 Testing and checking the power supply
11:47 Cleaning and reassembly
13:16 First power up
15:38 Trying to clear the Alarm light
19:45 Taking it for a test drive with the Centurion
24:33 Slow motion bunny ears!