[Boatanchors] Kleinschmidt teletype

[Fuqua, Bill L]

  It was a wirewrapped 6502 with rewritten Kim monitor in 4 1702 256x8 eproms.
The output routine was sent baudot code. With things like .EQ. for = and
.LE. for< etc. 
  Input however was a ASCII keyboard from Jameco. You could get them for
around $10. 
  Later I made a tape interface so that I could load  tiny basic. I first had only
1k bytes of ram  ( 8x 2102) but finally got up to 32 k with 8 4k boards all on 22 pin double readout
PCB's hand etched by a friend here in town.  Took a lot of power. 
  I still have it in the basement somewhere.
A flood ruined my model 15 and my speedgraphic camera. along with a lot of other stuff.
Was not exactly a flood, we had a ice storm and loss of power for about a week and 
the basement filled up with water since the sump pump did not work.
  My second computer was a Rockwell AIM-65 that I put into an old IBM took kit.
MY first lap top. It had a little thermal printer and a LED alph numeric display.
I got a 32kB memory board that was intended for, I think, OSI computers. That 
board cost $600 those days. This was around 1979. I still used my model 15 sometimes for
printouts but replaced it with a surplus chain printer, about 250 lb monster. 
  I knew the company I was working for was going bust so I also added A/D and D/A to
it with the intent of going into consulting. However, an engineering position opened up
at the University of Kentucky in the Physics department. I applied and took my computer
in the attache case. It impressed them, but they showed me their fast Z80 s-100 computers
and I challenged one professor to a race. We both had Microsoft basic and entered the same
program, something like 10000 multiplies, I won. I got the job too.
  Sorry to be so long winded, but you did ask.

73
Bill wa4lav

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Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 3:00 AM
To: Fuqua, Bill L; damonregister at bellsouth.net; Boatanchors at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Kleinschmidt teletype

Bill!  tell us  more  about the computer
and  how  you used the 15  with it... as a printer? or also  as a keyboard input  device.

Thanks Ed Sharpe Archivist  for SMECC

In a message dated 9/29/2015 8:12:15 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, wlfuqu00 at uky.edu writes:
   That reminds me, some day I need to find a model 15 TTY so that I can get my first computer up and going again.
It is down stairs and perhaps may still work if the old eproms are still good.
   All wire wrapped.
73
Bill wa4lav