[GreenKeys] Fwd: Teletype and Data Installation and Repair

Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:57:17 -0700

>Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:56:26 -0700
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>From: Don Robert House <[email protected]>
>Subject: Teletype and Data Installation and Repair
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>>And they worked to if the people in the stations, whether radio or
>>weather, tore the paper off correctly.  Lot of them didn't really pay
>>much attention.  Just grabbed what was sticking out of the top of the
>>printer as they ran back into the studio.  Then couldn't figure out why
>>the paper wouldn't feed out.  Sherriff locations and weather service
>>mostly pretty good people.
>>
>>Had forgotten about the static eliminators.  Course when your in a big
>>metro area like you were, things were different than being out here in
>>the stix, 1 tty repair person who also shot business and pots telephone
>>troubles and worked not installation but repair in town and rural as
>>well.  Didn't have the luxuries you bigger city folks had.
>>
>>Larry
>
>Luxuries?...  we had few.  I drove a Ford Econoline with a small six 
>cylinder engine and a heater core the size of two packs of 
>cigarettes.  Temperatures often were mucho below zero.  Our area was 
>most of NW suburban Cook County and all of Lake County Illinois.  We 
>had over 600 Teletype machines to maintain.  Most of them were Full 
>Period, meaning 24 hours a day 365 days a year... to be repaired in 
>two hours or less.  I will say the work was very satisfying and we 
>had a lot of respect from our customers and supervisors.  My how 
>things have changed.
>
>Don
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