[Boatanchors] Vintage Radios--LOTS
Jbrannig at verizon.net
Jbrannig at verizon.net
Thu Sep 18 08:35:48 EDT 2014
In the 80's Wall Street was transitioning from Teletype to electronic
terminals (IBM 3270's)
As the Teletype equipment was ripped out, the units filled hallways and
storage areas.
If you wanted one, you took it......otherwise they were all headed to scrap
dealers.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Lancashire
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 6:31 PM
To: Rob Atkinson
Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net ; manualman at juno.com
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Vintage Radios--LOTS
Ditto with most Teletypes as well. A few were able to come up with
imaginative ways. One Bell, I think Pacific Bell still required the
machines to be "destroyed" but you could get two machines, one with the
keyboard smashed and one with the tape reader smashed.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's the corporate mentality version of the flea market idiot who
> sees hams pulling his for-sale items out of a dumpster, so next time
> he takes anything no one buys, and smashes all of it with a sledge
> hammer before throwing it away.
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Mr Bill Mellema via Boatanchors
> <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> > I worked at the Motorola Service Center in Baltimore most of the 70's.
> We destroyed many good two way radio's that were taken in for trade-ins.
> That would have made nice rigs for repeater or simplex operations. We were
> required to list model and serial number on a company official document.
> You would lose your job if one of those radios turned up somewhere.
> >
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