John Penta ) wrote:
: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 21:44:48 +0000 (UTC),
: (Eric Chomko) wrote:


: Pardon me for jumping in...
:
: My father was working at the Pentagon on the Moscow-Washington "Hotline".
: And I saw with my own eyes from Russia ASCII art congradulating us for the
: first moon landing.
:
: So at least those technicians on duty at the Hotline in Moscow believed we
: did it.
:
: Boy I wish I was able to keep one of those hardcopy tranmissions, but it
: all went back to the Pentagon the next day.
:
: Eric

: I wish they'd declassify and distribute that.:-/

I'm considering going through DOJ FOIA to see about exactly that. I'd say
from an intel point of view that after 30+ years anything from the hotline
would be cold intel to say the least.

: I wonder how ASCII art looked off a teletype. I know you can do some
: pretty...Impressive things with PC ASCII.

The paper was white and not the canary yellow that I have on my ASR-33.
In fact, the TTYs were the larger console types according to my dad and
not the stand alone ASR/KSR/RO that I used in high school and then
eventually bought while in college to hook to my home computer.
See: http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/swt/

Also, the ink on the white paper was purply-blue. Geez, even a camera
photo of the message would have been nice.

Eric