I was a nuts and bolts guy who worked 20yrs, with teletypewriters and their systems on Wall St. It would amaze you how many times customers would forget that an outlet was needed for power to run the machine....or even realize that they had to turn the darned thing ON! It was ALWAYS my experience that the higher up in the pecking order someone was, the more bereft they were of basic common sense. I'm not saying they were dumb, just ignorant and disdainful of “details.”
Remember “Challenger”? Remember how none of the big shots wanted to be bothered about some O rings?
“I was a nuts and bolts guy who worked 20yrs, with teletypewriters and their systems “
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Well, I did have a 15 and a 19 that I used for RTTY.
I did know to plug them in, both power and signal, haha.