[GreenKeys] RE: Teletype items need careful preservation

Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:07:55 -0600

You have to be careful who you donate to.  About 5 years ago AT&T 
Bell Labs and Lucent went around the country in a large bus picking 
up antique technology for their museum.  Now there is great worry 
that all of this rare equipment might be sent to the scrap yard as 
Lucent is going broke.

I told you so...

Don

At 3:32 PM -0500 12/12/2002, AI2Q Alex wrote:
>Yup. I wish I still had my FRXD-3-EL non-typing reperf.
>
>A few years ago I donated it to the Science Museum of Long Island, and the
>museum director tossed it in the dumpster!
>
>Vy 73, AI2Q, Alex in Kennebunk, Maine  .-.-.
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:50 PM
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>Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Odd Typing reperf on Greenkeys
>
>
>Nothing really odd about an FRXD.  They are somewhat rare however.
>
>The FRXD...
>A machine for sending messages cross-office. Based on the Model 14
>Typing Reperforator and a special transmitter-distributor with a
>climbing head, this RT unit would take traffic from one circuit and
>resend it on another circuit. The climbing head enabled the device to
>read the last character punched by the reperforator.
>
>Don
>
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North American Data Communications Museum
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