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[Darius Kazemi]

Great observations -- it looks like that is indeed the teletype present at
the recreated Boelter 3420 so I'm guessing the university must have
mislabeled the teletype, or they labeled it as "a teletype much like this
one connected to blah blah blah" and it was misread by the photographer.

You can see the exact machine (the ITT sticker is clear enough) in the
museum space here:
https://samueli.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/samueli/internet_room-1.jpg

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 9:05 AM John R. Levine <isoc at johnlevine.com> wrote:

> >> It's an OK article, but what's a picture of a Model 32 Teletype doing
> there?
> >>
> >
> > That specific teletype is there to illustrate the point in RFC 114 that
> > "indirect usage" means that a user doesn't have to care about
> "differences
> > in terminal characteristics". It's a photo of an ARPANET terminal, ...
>
> A baudot Model 32?  All the ttys I used with computers were ASCII Model 33.
>
> > Specifically the teletype pictured was connected to the Sigma 7 at UCLA,
> > according to the person who took the photo:
> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/fastlizard4/8412531873/
>
> I know that's what it says, but I think he's mistaken.  When I look at
> Sigma 7 manuals at bitsavers I see ASCII and EBCDIC, not baudot.
>
> Also, that tty has an ITT sticker on it which suggests it was connected to
> the ITT telex network which was indeed baudot.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl at taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> Dummies",
> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
>