Fwd: [GreenKeys] Fw: Bell Teletypewriter for the Deaf

[Don Robert House]

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From: Don Robert House <drhouse at nadcomm.com>
Date: 12 December 2005 8:02:22 AM CST
To: Carter Grabarczyk <k8vt at ameritech.net>, Wallace Murray  
<wm3912 at sbc.com>
Cc: ckline9460 at wowway.com
Subject: Fwd: [GreenKeys] Fw:  Bell Teletypewriter for the Deaf

Carter or Wallace,

By chance could you pick this machine up for our museum?  Apparently  
a 15 or 28 KSR.

I would pick up from you in the Spring.

Don

Don R. House
Curator NADCOMM
http://www.nadcomm.org

----- Original Message ----- From: "Carole Kline"  
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Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 9:54 PM
Subject: [TCI] Bell Teletypewriter

> I have a vintage post WWII teletypewriter that belonged to my  
> mother who
> interpreted for the deaf in the Detroit area. It came with a wooden  
> table
> that says LIT TTY on the front. However after some inquiry with  
> someone in
> Lansing who is deaf but looking for an actual TTY, I don't think  
> this one is
> anything but a teletype. My mother now 80 says that when a call  
> came in on
> her home phone she would know that it was a deaf person calling,  
> plug in the
> machine and lay the phone in her lap. It is a metal case with roll  
> paper
> inside, a glass cover and a typewriter keyboard. My husband kept it  
> since he
> worked on teletypes as a repairman for Michigan Bell and AT&T. He  
> died in an
> accident last year soon after retirement and I don't want it  
> anymore. I am
> willing to donate it to any non-profit organization or sell it if  
> need be.
> Does anyone know of a contact in the Detroit metropolitan area or  
> Michigan
> or Ohio that might be interested?
>