[GreenKeys] 19 ASR available in Ohio

[jhhaynes at earthlink.net]

Some early Bell System documents say that in the early days of TWX
the customers wanted nice-looking machines, and in that time frame
that meant "looks like office furniture".  So they built the tables
of wood and the metal covers had hand-painted faux-wood-grain finishes.

At some later time fashions changed and the customers wanted or would
accept machines that looked like office machines.  So the brown and
black and gray-green wrinkle finishes came in.  I have a wood M19 table
that some W.E. distributing house no doubt painted over the old dark
mahogany wood finish with a thick layer of gray-green goop, which is
peeling off.  And I have seen painted-over wood grain finishes on metal
parts.

I heard somewhere that there was a renewal of the faux-wood-grain metal
finish sometime in the last 50 years, and that there were few people
still living who knew how to do it.  But now we have fake wood grain
contact paper.

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Duncan M. Brown wrote:

> Is the "wooden table" original Bell??
>
>  --Duncan
>
>