> On 06/12/2024 5:55 PM CDT Fritz Mueller via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
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> One of the engineers here asked if there were any teletype rolls along with
> these and if so that they be salvaged because "...it is broadly lossy to rf
> and can be used as an rf termination load."
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> cheers,
> --FritzM.
It's been almost 40 years since I saw a roll of teletype paper, but I think
they were rolled on cardboard? I can't imagine it would work very well in its
native state, but maybe soaked in water or salt water it would be conductive
enough and could dissipate a fair amount of power. I wouldn't think it would
work much better than a light bulb, though.
I know in the army they taught us to make a terminating resistor out of an ear
plug case filled with salt water, but that wasn't intended to be very accurate
or dissipate much power.
Will
Grownups never understand anything by themselves and it is tiresome for
children to be always and forever explaining things to them,
Antoine de Saint-Exupery in The Little Prince
