@kenshirriff @tubetime that is incredibly cool. It’s a shame the YouTube video wasn’t longer showing the reverse engineering effort undertaken. I love all your work as it’s quite extraordinary what was built so quickly with such engineering skills.

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This is amazing. I think I now know where some espionage movie title sequences with typed characters showing up out of order come from: a teleprinter.

@kenshirriff @tubetime Wonderful restoration! Tangentially related, I read that the optional copier for the DEC VT52 used electrolysis to print onto damp paper using a helical electrode on a spinning drum. I found drawings and docs, but as far as I can tell, there are no working units that have been demonstrated on video anywhere. Would be really cool to see that in action! Very few terminals seem to have ’add water’ as a regular maintenance item 😄