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Old 1st Aug 2019, 9:41 pm   #1
JohnBHanson
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Default Teletype KSR-33

A very quick question - as I don't have one of these how does it react to being sent lower case characters from a computer does
1. Print a space
2. Print nothing
3. Print the upper case character
4. Something else

I have looked at the documentation and it is not much help. If anyone has one of these I wonder if they could let me know.

Many thanks.
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Old 2nd Aug 2019, 5:15 am   #2
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Default Re: Teletype KSR-33

As far as I know it will print the equivalent upper case character
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Old 4th Aug 2019, 10:57 am   #3
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Default Re: Teletype KSR-33

I used to have access to an ASR-33 which is basically the same thing with a paper tape punch/reader and that would print the uppercase of lowercase letters sent to it.
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Old 4th Aug 2019, 2:07 pm   #4
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Default Re: Teletype KSR-33

The 'typing unit' is much the same between the KSR and ASR versions so both should show the same behaviour. An ASR will punch a received lower case character as lower case (all bits on the tape are the bits it received) and will send a lower case character from tape as lower case.

I have a couple of Model 33 ASR's here (one Teletype, one Data Dynamics 390, which is the same mechanism) along with the manuals, but neither have been run for some years so I don't want to turn them on without going over the lubrication instructions which will take a bit of time. I can do it if necessary though.
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