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| 242845 | 2004-06-08 09:17:00 | Hey.. A tty is a small peice of equipment that can enable deaf ppl to communicate over normal telephone lines...but sadly its kinda expensive... but i searched online and found that there is some software that can turn your computer into a tty when you need to use one... But i wanna know...would it work in NZ? like a laptop turning into a tty and using it here and wherever if u know what i mean... |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 242846 | 2004-06-08 09:34:00 | Hi csinclair83, put " tty" into google. There are quite a bit of information there, some of which may be useful. | Curly (487) | ||
| 242847 | 2004-06-08 09:36:00 | Opps, sorry, misread your post - I don,t know if it works in NZ. :-( | Curly (487) | ||
| 242848 | 2004-06-08 09:53:00 | www.deafquip.co.nz | Jim B (153) | ||
| 242849 | 2004-06-08 10:00:00 | Does NZ match these requirements apart from the ones that are fdor computer specs.... Requirements: myTTY is compatible with Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP. It will not work on Windows NT 3.51 or earlier because these versions of Windows do not support TAPI; you will need a PC computer, a voice modem, a telephone line*, myTTY software. *myTTY will work with a digital phone system only if the digital phone system has an analog connection available (data port). Future versions will allow the software to work with digital phone lines. |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 242850 | 2004-06-08 22:07:00 | NZ uses an analogue phone system. Some companies have internal PABX systems that are digital, and to which the comment would still apply but the Telecom PSTN system is plain old analogue. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 242851 | 2004-06-09 02:10:00 | A TTY is a heavy piece of equipment made by the Teletype® Corporation . Common model numbers are ASR33, KSR33, ASR35 . . . They use ASCII code,and normally communicate at 110 baud (1 start bit, 8 data, 2 stop) through a current loop interface . . . which gives 10 characters/second flat out . When operating they sound like "clatter clatter clatter bang clackety ting brrrp" . They were used for communications and as computer terminals . THe British PO (and NZPO) used Creed teleprinters which used (5-level) Murray Code (sometimes called Baudot) -- a 5 bit code, not 7/8 like ASCII usually about 55 or so baud . (1 start bit, 5 data, 1 . 5 stop bits ;-)) . Certainly it's easy to make a PC work like one of the boxes you mention . . . but I'm not sure which code people use in NZ . I'd guess that there are a lot of free programmes around to do it, and there would almost certainly be a switch in most of them to select the appropriate code and baud rate . I guess that most people would use ASCII now, but I have an idea that at least the older boxes used Murray code . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 242852 | 2004-06-09 02:32:00 | Memories . I used a Creed type 25 teleprinter machine in the '80s Also built an interface to a shortwave receiver, and "decoded" and printed the commercial teletype signals . Weather forecasts etc, even Interpol data was available in those days . Then along came PCs, and I wrote software to do the decoding . MUCH quieter than the mechanical TTY machine . Used the Creed as a PC printer then, wrote the assembly level code to interface it . |
godfather (25) | ||
| 242853 | 2004-06-09 04:19:00 | Hey just thought I'd let you knwo I've emailed the company to get definate answers :) as i want it to have no problem communicating with the United States phone system as well as NZ and Australia Cheers :) |
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