Two fixed #TeliContact telex handhelds! New batteries installed. Just need to leave them on charge for about 12 hours. For some reason the display contrast on one is awful.

Nice lunch (more carbonara) and the batteries for the #TeliContact arrived. That's rather nice. I'll see about welding those together this evening, as I also have battery tabs and tab strip.

Finally pulled the trigger on a purchase I've been umming and aahing about for maybe the last year. I now have a pair of Teli Contact portable acoustic-coupler Telex transmitters on the way, with the matching printers.
I think these are cool not just because they're handheld Telex TTYs, but also because they had crypto onboard... initially DES, but later on a backdoored NSA-supplied algorithm: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/philips/px1000/
#retrocomputing #tty #TeliContact