MITE Tactical Teleprinter - military digital communications from 1958

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  • @v12alpine
    @v12alpine ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Still blows my mind how someone or some group of people at some time without computer aid were able to design this thing to actually work. What a marvel of mechanical complexity.

    • @deemstyle
      @deemstyle ปีที่แล้ว +5

      So I’m not the only one who thinks this way! I recently visited Battleship New Jersey and had the exact same thought while walking around the battleship- which is very likely one of the most complex machines I’ve ever been in. The fact that they did it all without computer- just a room full of engineers at drafting tables just blows my brain!!

  • @larryl730
    @larryl730 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I served in the air force from 1966-70 as a 363x0 (electro-mechanical relay system repairman) "teletype maintenance". Tech school was in Sheppard AFB in Texas and was 36 weeks/ 5 days-6 hours class/lab days. After basic electronics/test equipment, we trained on only two machines, Teletype M-28 and one Kleinschmidt model. The 363X0 skill code did cover other equipment such as FAX and the machine showed on this video but they were not included in the initial training course. We were told of the "mite-mite" but were told they were only used in the Air Force for the SAC 24/7/365 continuous airborne alternate nuclear authority mission on RC-135 aircraft. Glad I didn't have to try and repair this model, looks to be a real beast to work on. I suspect that they just treated it as a line replaceable item and sent defective units to depot or vendor for repair. Would like to know the unit price paid for this model, I'm sure it was a lot. Never met anyone that worked on it in my 4 years in.

  • @knerduno5942
    @knerduno5942 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The one on the space shuttle was an AN/UGC-74. It still had electro-mechanical parts. It had a drum printer. US Army got rid of those ~1987. They were supposed to replaced from part of a system using radios, secure telephones, and fax. They dumped all that and kept the radios.

  • @skfalpink123
    @skfalpink123 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    They were actually used on ships right to the end of the 1990s, to receive weather fax updates via Inmarsat.

    • @TomKappeln
      @TomKappeln ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Right ... DRFT over and out.

  • @kjamison5951
    @kjamison5951 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    That printing mechanism is insane and yet it totally works!
    Thank you for sharing this incredible piece of history!

    • @pscage8388
      @pscage8388 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Its not insane, if it was it would not work!

  • @ferrellsl
    @ferrellsl ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I had to laugh when I saw this video. I was a Radio-Teletype Platoon Leader for the US Army in the late 1980's and we were still using this teletype even then. I think it was finally phased out around 1990.

    • @knerduno5942
      @knerduno5942 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was the AN/UGC-74.

    • @ferrellsl
      @ferrellsl ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@knerduno5942 No, my platoon was still using the AN/TGC-14A up until 1989 when I was transferred to another unit. They may have upgraded to the UGC-74 after I left though. But at that point the remaining RATT rigs in the Army's inventory were being completely phased out Army-wide. It was definitely the end of an era.

    • @knerduno5942
      @knerduno5942 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ferrellsl You must of been in a low priority unit. In 86-87 I went to Fort Gordon for Teletype repair, and the last unit to learn was the UGC-74. The AN/TGC-14A was nowhere to be found there. Then I was sent to West Germany to the 2d ACR. They had RATT rigs, but right after I arrived, they started getting rid of them, and I was out of a job, and send to Class IX to help with their worker shortage. I considered switching units in Wurzberg in 88. There was a signal battalion there with a motorpool full of RATT rigs. I passed when I found out they spent most of their time in the field.
      Seems low priority units always do stuff last. A unit I was sent to in 93 at Fort Still did not get M16A2 until that year or next. While the 2d ACR in West Germany got them in 87.

    • @ferrellsl
      @ferrellsl ปีที่แล้ว

      @@knerduno5942 After thinking about it and looking at some photos of the UGC-74, I think you're right. These teletypes look a lot alike and my memory from 30+ years ago can be faulty.

  • @w2hx
    @w2hx ปีที่แล้ว +10

    You're very lucky to get this one. Most MITEs were 400 Hz AC very few had 60 Hz power supplies!

  • @KanalFrump
    @KanalFrump ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Astonishing from a modern perspective to see the neat and accurate, super-detailed exploded-view mechanical drawings from so long ago.
    Equipped with Solidworks you can generate similar looking views in no time at all. But doing it by hand on a drafting table?

    • @acmefixer1
      @acmefixer1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They're called Illustrated Parts Breakdowns. 👍

  • @richardbourgeois6867
    @richardbourgeois6867 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I have collected several different versions of the Mite teleprinter. In addition to the Baudot models they had an ASCII version with more electronics and less mechanical components as well as a amazing hand held teleprinter for in dash mounting in vehicles. I emailed you pictures.

    • @CuriousMarc
      @CuriousMarc  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks got it. I didn't even know this existed!

  • @antronargaiv3283
    @antronargaiv3283 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I remember, back in the early 70s, working on a portable ASCII terminal which used the same prismatic print mechanism. I can't quite remember the manufacturer, but it had an integrated acoustic coupler and the problem was that the metal type elements were glued onto the plastic(?) rotating prism and were falling off due to failure of the bond. I'm not sure we were able to find a glue robust enough to keep the type elements on the prism. The prism on the MITE looks like it's all metal, which is a much better design!

    • @wolframgerber7118
      @wolframgerber7118 ปีที่แล้ว

      SELEKTIONSDRUCKWERK MIT typenrad war aber die clevere Variante. 😋

  • @Edisson.
    @Edisson. ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Amazing design, I've never had the chance to see this type of print head up close, but adjusting a round rotary print head is an experience.
    Nice day 🙂 Tom

  • @shawnhuk
    @shawnhuk ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My favourite music! Always gets my head bopping, even at 5:40 in the morning!

  • @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
    @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER ปีที่แล้ว +6

    thats a beautiful teleprinter! tactical no less ha. amazing

  • @Orbis92
    @Orbis92 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you John for donating this, so Marc can show us this beautiful machine :)

  • @carpetbomberz
    @carpetbomberz ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If 'X' required use of teletypes,... I might consider coming back. *maybe* 😸. The slo-mo of the printhead is amazing. Watching it slide and "correct" the position and settle into it's next character position is pretty cool.

  • @antronargaiv3283
    @antronargaiv3283 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Regarding the auto-start feature: Obviously, the local keyboard won't be able to start the motor again, because its operation depends on the motor running. Try sending some characters from your test terminal. That should start the motor.

    • @CuriousMarc
      @CuriousMarc  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You are absolutely right! But the break key did not work either (forgot to include footage). We got external characters to wake it up sometimes, and only after multiple attempts and losing the first few characters. We’ll sort it out eventually.

    • @antronargaiv3283
      @antronargaiv3283 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@CuriousMarc You will always lose the first few characters bc the motor has to come up to speed which takes a few character times. Then, the machine has to get sync'd with the incoming characters.
      When you look at shortwave teletype messages, they almost always start with "NNNN" then a few CR/LFs. That triggers the motor control and gives the machine time to sync. Probably preceded by a few LTRS to make sure it's in the right mode.
      I worked on a motor start relay for a 33, and the only way we could get it to work was to send a RUBOUT (start bit and all ones) then wait a while for the motor to come up to speed, then send our message. The relay was tripped by the start bit of the RUBOUT and then the all ones at whatever speed would not print...

    • @Brian3989
      @Brian3989 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@antronargaiv3283As I recall from teleprinter days long ago, the NNNN coding was end of message, start was ZCZC.

  • @patrikknoerr9777
    @patrikknoerr9777 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Now I can see where the design of the early "laptops" came from. Cool.

  • @emdxemdx
    @emdxemdx ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember seeing a printer with that same mechanism about 43-44 years ago.
    I was totally impressed by the design with the print element BEHIND the paper and only the hammer in front of it.
    I think it had a different design but the same principle with two sets of solenoïds and pulleys driving the print element left and right and around.

  • @RetroOnSpeedDial
    @RetroOnSpeedDial ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What a stunning piece of kit. Would love something like this.

    • @acmefixer1
      @acmefixer1 ปีที่แล้ว

      You wouldn't love it after you found out what it can't do. It's s-l-o-w, and isn't compatible with ASCII communications that computers use. It is much better to get a machine that can do 8-bit ASCII.

    • @RetroOnSpeedDial
      @RetroOnSpeedDial ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@acmefixer1 it's more the fact that it's a teletype. Not expecting it to be a computer terminal

  • @XMarkxyz
    @XMarkxyz ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As usual astonishing video and content, a beautiful machine really
    And let John know that he looks like a lovely person whom anybody would like to talk with extensively about teletypes and vacum tubes

  • @rsmrsm2000
    @rsmrsm2000 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Unbelievable !
    Please more videos.

  • @Spookieham
    @Spookieham ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I took part in a RTTY or radio teletype net last night on UHF. Modern computers are radios but still tty with all the modulation tones

  • @amycollins8832
    @amycollins8832 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The NASA Shuttle "Interim Teleprinter System" had 63 characters available and the same innards as other teleprinters of its kind. Electronics were inside that took the uplinks via an unused voice radio channel. Of the 63 A-Z uppercase, 0-9, 5 greek letters (alpha, beta, delta, gamma, phi and theta) and punctuation including underscore, overscore, up arrow, down arrow, mathematical symbols > < ~ and so forth. The system was in use until about 1993 or 1994.

  • @abdulmoeedraja
    @abdulmoeedraja ปีที่แล้ว +4

    @9:14 If I ever get a ship i am going to name it "The Lazy Dog".

  • @michaelmiller641
    @michaelmiller641 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow! Thats fascinating. I love these old mechanical devices. That old earlier teletype machine is like a living creature to be loved and admired! Birthed, and The product of years of research and manufacture by hundreds of man( and woman) hours! Thankyou for that! Marc.

  • @thesteelrodent1796
    @thesteelrodent1796 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    now we eagerly await Marc's lesson on Tactical Teletyping :) It's not quite a Marc video when you can just plug it in and it works

  • @brandona1370
    @brandona1370 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's good to see who you are, John!

  • @LSDale
    @LSDale ปีที่แล้ว

    That is an amazing machine. The fact that it doesn't have to return to neutral to go to the next character is mind blowing.

  • @code123ns
    @code123ns ปีที่แล้ว

    That's one of the oldest "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

  • @Al-il7wy
    @Al-il7wy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I worked on the MITE TT-264 version as installed on the US Navy P3-B. I overhauled these in a depot environment from 78 thru 82. These would print up to 100wpm at 30% distortion. We would run these for hours after overhaul, repeating the message “MARYOU”. These were not easy to learn and required hours of tear down to replace all the needle bearings on the main shaft. I also worked on the replacement unit that was installed on the US Navy P3-C aircraft, the AGC-6, that used a thermal dot matrix print head.

  • @darrinpearce9780
    @darrinpearce9780 ปีที่แล้ว

    The sound of these TTY machines is still magical to me.

  • @nutsnproud6932
    @nutsnproud6932 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fascinating what they could do in 1958.

  • @rainerkaskinen3056
    @rainerkaskinen3056 ปีที่แล้ว

    I still insist that Marc is at the Guru level of the knowledge of common electronics. If youre still not convinced, proove it😉

  • @iNerdier
    @iNerdier ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Weight: ~18.6kg.
    How can a Frenchman not include it in kilo!

    • @CuriousMarc
      @CuriousMarc  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s so light there is no equivalent in the metric system!

  • @mikenovack3955
    @mikenovack3955 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loud enough to give away your position to an enemy a mile away!!

  • @PlaywithJunk
    @PlaywithJunk ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have never seen a machine that types the characters from behind the paper....

  • @adeeponionbrah
    @adeeponionbrah ปีที่แล้ว

    It liked running as it improved word image with the workout!

  • @Renville80
    @Renville80 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had one just like that at one point. I ended up scrapping it as it'd been dropped at some point, but I kept the keyboard around for a while afterwards. Wish I still had it so I could send it along for spares. Hindsight = 20/20

  • @ydonl
    @ydonl ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks, John!

  • @olddisneylandtickets
    @olddisneylandtickets ปีที่แล้ว

    That was splendid. That teletype sound always reminds me of the evening news.

  • @jayglenn837
    @jayglenn837 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have my own Model 15 that I inherited from my grandpa, & someday I hope to use the videos on your channel to restore it.

  • @PascalFleer
    @PascalFleer ปีที่แล้ว +15

    And i thought that I'd lost my hearing due to the noise of teletype machines....🤣

    • @TechGorilla1987
      @TechGorilla1987 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Come again?

    • @radarmusen
      @radarmusen ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Every one in the building know if you are posting on social media.😂

  • @rx80
    @rx80 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you John for collecting all those nice things, and donating them 👍👍👍

  • @JPBennett
    @JPBennett ปีที่แล้ว

    That mechanism is nuts. Just unreal.

  • @ptonpc
    @ptonpc ปีที่แล้ว

    It is a thing of beauty.

  • @cdl0
    @cdl0 ปีที่แล้ว

    Unlike modern devices, it is possible to see and understand how this teletype works, and is completely serviceable. Having the rotation axis of the print head parallel with the platten is an interesting solution. On the classic ASR33, the orientation of the axes are orthogonal.

  • @ricomputermuseum1107
    @ricomputermuseum1107 ปีที่แล้ว

    I looked at a MITE at the New England Wireless and Steam Museum this morning.

  • @rrb6544
    @rrb6544 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing machine… wow that mechanical print head in the back of paper sheet and the pulley work are insane 😮

  • @PixelSchnitzel
    @PixelSchnitzel ปีที่แล้ว

    Just incredible! I would love to see that print head in slow m . . . AND THERE IT IS! Thanks! 😀

  • @barbarabarby5298
    @barbarabarby5298 ปีที่แล้ว

    If I remember well, the "red phone line" from the presidents of USA and USSR, in reality was a coded RTTY link with these machines and all the diplomatic traffic between ambassadors and homeland in all the world was with RTTY.

  • @jxh02
    @jxh02 ปีที่แล้ว

    Re MITE, could they have been hoping we would call it MIGHTY? It sure is! I love the idea of moving things as the bits come in.

  • @TheDiveO
    @TheDiveO ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That TTY in operation in the field gives "side channel attacks" a whole plethora of new meanings...

  • @largepimping
    @largepimping ปีที่แล้ว

    Somehow I'm still worried that there there's a Rifa cap about to blow up in that thing.

  • @brucenadams1
    @brucenadams1 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is that an 833? Our Gates AM transmitter had four. Two for RF and Two for AM modulation. The power transformer was the size of 4 Costco chickens. The modulation transformer was about the same size.

  • @rasitsimsek9400
    @rasitsimsek9400 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    'bracket' vs. 'parentheses' : A bracket are "[ ]" and parentheses are "( )". But some people are saying brackets and meaning the parentheses.

    • @cdl0
      @cdl0 ปีที่แล้ว

      What about curly braces "{}"? Don't forget them! 🙂

  • @AnthonyFrancisJones
    @AnthonyFrancisJones ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent! Reminiscent in some ways to the old ICL type barrel printers but slower for obvious reasons! I also presume that groups of letters on the barrel/cylinder were designed so minimal rotation was needed. Did you need to change this for different languages that might have different incidences of each letter? Again, I guess speed, unlike the large mainframe line printers, was not really an issue here!

  • @richardlincoln886
    @richardlincoln886 ปีที่แล้ว

    Randomness - just worked out what your intro/them tune reminds me of - Super Mario Sunshine N64 (or was it gamecube or wii?) - where you had to literally clean the town up with a water pump backpack thing.
    Perhaps not the same tune, but I seem to remember it had a similar cheery theme before each level :)

  • @DAVIDGREGORYKERR
    @DAVIDGREGORYKERR 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    But there must have been some form of Cryptosystem to prevent the enemy from finding out what your guys are up to as no one wants to get shot at.

  • @TeslaTales59
    @TeslaTales59 ปีที่แล้ว

    What an incredible machine! And... Who know there was a TT in the Shuttle?

  • @richardayres7958
    @richardayres7958 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a delight

  • @oak_meadow9533
    @oak_meadow9533 ปีที่แล้ว

    this machine has a fantastic beat to it!😅😅😅 it makes me want to drum along with it🤪🤪🤪

  • @kurtmueller2089
    @kurtmueller2089 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am curious about the use of teletypes in WW2 by other nations, particularly Japan and China: Considering their vastly different alphabet, did they use them at all? Did they have modified versions that could deal with the Kanji? I once saw a Japanese "typewriter" from that era, a scary monstrosity where every single character had to be picked by hand on some sort of x-y-table.

  • @miles2378
    @miles2378 ปีที่แล้ว

    When did military Telitypes start using displays instead of relying on a printer as the only output?

  • @JoseFernandez-qt8hm
    @JoseFernandez-qt8hm ปีที่แล้ว

    I used a TI Silent 700 in the late 70s.....

  • @jantonkens9820
    @jantonkens9820 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is it me or is the box on the right a bit noisier then the left teletype?

  • @InssiAjaton
    @InssiAjaton ปีที่แล้ว

    I was once "allowed" to try my skill in sending a short message on an old WW2 German Field Teletype. It depended on me hitting each character at a specific time slot. Well, I could not! I already before that knew I was no drummer... My mother had once stopped my attempt to play piano somewhere (most likely at my godparents' house), because my "rhythm" was no RHYTHM. It still is not.

  • @Derpy1969
    @Derpy1969 ปีที่แล้ว

    IT’S WHISPER QUIET!!!

  • @0MoTheG
    @0MoTheG ปีที่แล้ว

    IT IS SO LOUD, WHY?
    Is there a noisy motor that clocks the machine?

  • @listerdave1240
    @listerdave1240 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think the auto correct needs some adjustment.

  • @prillewitz
    @prillewitz ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another interesting video Marc! I never knew the had those very small switches on the front in 1958 already. Always thought that they were from a much later period.

  • @oliversnow
    @oliversnow ปีที่แล้ว

    I regret that I gave but one like to give.

  • @benhetland576
    @benhetland576 ปีที่แล้ว

    10:20 The tty equivalent to a screen saver.

  • @paulkocyla1343
    @paulkocyla1343 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The number of parts in this thing probably exceeds the number of transistors on a chip that would be able to decode the signal. Freakin impressive build, and a joy to watch it working.

    • @RetroJack
      @RetroJack ปีที่แล้ว +3

      My 9.8 billion transister RyZen 9 could decode the signal; does that count? 😋

    • @paulkocyla1343
      @paulkocyla1343 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@RetroJack LOL, yeah sure it counts, and I guess within just nanoseconds ;)

    • @RetroJack
      @RetroJack ปีที่แล้ว

      @@paulkocyla1343 🤣

  • @acmefixer1
    @acmefixer1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like
    JACKDAWS LOVE MY BIG SPHINX OF QUARTZ
    instead of quick brown fox.

  • @explorer914
    @explorer914 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Am I first? Hm seems like I'm so early audio hasn't arrived yet.
    Now there is sound. 😊

    • @Floyd..B
      @Floyd..B ปีที่แล้ว

      I have audio.

    • @CuriousMarc
      @CuriousMarc  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes indeed, you are first! By being so early, you have been automatically awarded hearing protection from loud teletypes noises, courtesy of lazy TH-cam audio processing.

    • @Rob2
      @Rob2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CuriousMarc You really should upload video's and release them only an hour or so later, or at some pre-scheduled time.
      Now we have this useless "no audio!" "only 360p!" discussion on every video.

    • @Floyd..B
      @Floyd..B ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CuriousMarc Nice one

    • @CuriousMarc
      @CuriousMarc  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Rob2 Nah. My videos are released as soon as they are baked. You just need to let them cool down 5 minutes before tasting.

  • @TomKappeln
    @TomKappeln ปีที่แล้ว

    I ❤ W A R G A M E S !

  • @DangerousPictures
    @DangerousPictures ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Is it just me, or is there no audio?

    • @Parakinese
      @Parakinese ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have audio 😉

    • @FuquarProductions
      @FuquarProductions ปีที่แล้ว

      No audio here watching from Tenerife, Canary Islands Spain.

    • @DavidScheiber
      @DavidScheiber ปีที่แล้ว

      Video processing, was only in 360p for a while as well.

    • @ansgaryeysymontt7155
      @ansgaryeysymontt7155 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There is no you.

    • @paulforester6996
      @paulforester6996 ปีที่แล้ว

      Turn the volume up!😁

  • @timcat1004
    @timcat1004 ปีที่แล้ว

    Watt did the fox say?

  • @malcolmgibson6288
    @malcolmgibson6288 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Looks like the doodly do doodly didn't.

    • @CuriousMarc
      @CuriousMarc  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Whoops I forgot. Should be fixed into a doodly does it again.

  • @624Dudley
    @624Dudley ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Elegant mechanism! 👍

  • @davidbrown8365
    @davidbrown8365 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Brilliant machine and print head. Looking forward to future videos and tear downs

  • @Wizardess
    @Wizardess ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Um, 60 speed is 45.5 baud which is essentially a bit time. So bit not char when citing the 45.5. (It's messier than that with start and stop mushed in there. But, you get the idea, I am sure.) This is still extant in some amateur radio stations.
    BTW - if you get the fax machine contemporary with that period I bet I have a treat for you. (And I have not forgotten the 2100S BASIC interpreter source. I still have to scan the bloody thing.)
    {^_^}

    • @CuriousMarc
      @CuriousMarc  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Oops. Technical Freudian slip. Indeed, 45.5 bits per second, nor char per second.

  • @brianbranson2306
    @brianbranson2306 ปีที่แล้ว

    kinda reminds me of FADAC

  • @bigsarge2085
    @bigsarge2085 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ✌️✌️

  • @38911bytefree
    @38911bytefree ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice, pretty intricate, but ... all mechanical !!!!

  • @robertjones3223
    @robertjones3223 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes all posts to X should be made by Telletype 😂

  • @abidibrahim
    @abidibrahim ปีที่แล้ว +3

    No audio

  • @estudiom142
    @estudiom142 ปีที่แล้ว

  • @aserta
    @aserta ปีที่แล้ว +3

    11:16 as observed, an adage as old as time. If it doesn't work, turn it off and on again. :))

  • @SkyOctopus1
    @SkyOctopus1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Not a video for headphone users :)

  • @scooterscs
    @scooterscs ปีที่แล้ว

    Look, it’s only 41 pounds. 💀

  • @TechGorilla1987
    @TechGorilla1987 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Irrelevant, but I just got my hands on a late 50's/early 60's RCA tube reel to reel. Its the Type EDT-3 "Scholastic" and it comes from a company in Harrisburg, PA that happens to still be in business. They have been in business since 1929. Does anyone know anything at all about it or can anyone put it to use? In all my searching the internet so far - I have only found ONE relevant video of the machine.

  • @TheIVImann
    @TheIVImann ปีที่แล้ว

    Is that an amplifier in Johns rack? looks funky :D (5:30)

  • @DragonsAndDragons777
    @DragonsAndDragons777 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hear the audio!

  • @FuquarProductions
    @FuquarProductions ปีที่แล้ว

    Ah, finally the audio has returned.

  • @MarcelHuguenin
    @MarcelHuguenin ปีที่แล้ว

    What a beautiful machine and as we know a thing of beauty is ...

  • @TechGorilla1987
    @TechGorilla1987 ปีที่แล้ว

    @6:08 - To be fair, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C had a pretty skinny neck too, but he was 'Americas soldier.' for many years. I keed, I keed!

  • @68hoffman
    @68hoffman ปีที่แล้ว

    kool

  • @videoPinkCat
    @videoPinkCat ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Нет звука 🔇

  • @mikemines2931
    @mikemines2931 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you think electronics are complicated look inside a mechanical teleprinter.