[GreenKeys] Interesting item on eBay web site item#2220078949: WESTERN UNION TELETYPE TELEGRAPH MACHINE OLD!

[Roy Morgan]

At 08:57 AM 1/23/04 -0700, gil smith wrote:
>That is a Model 31 tape printer -- I have one.  There are only about a 
>dozen of them known here on greenkeys, so someone should pick it up. 
><http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2220078949>

Greenkeyers,

For the record, I have a military TT-30/AGA-1 that is new unused, never 
installed. I got it from the estate of a long time TTY fellow in the DC 
area who had been a Navy Communications officer.  I can assume that the 
TT-30 had been used in ASW patrol planes such as the P-2 or P-3, or 
possibly aboard ship.

On the motor type, I can't remember which motor it has, but I seem to 
remember it has a 115 volt motor in it. Aircraft power was almost always 
400 cycle, so I'm hoping it is a governed motor not a synchronous one.  I 
can easily get to the thing and I'll check what motor it has.

This teletype wins my vote for highest cuteness factor of any machine I've 
seen.  It is about one quarter the size of a Model 15.

Roy


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