[GreenKeys] 19 ASR available in Ohio

[wa2hwj at att.net]

I believe I mentioned this before...in the 70's when I was working
for Ma Bell in the TTY gang, the company made a brilliant decision
to "update" all of the business offices. Most of these offices had the
old steel "tank" desks and Model 19's. One night, they came through
an office and painted everything mustard yellow, TTY's and all. It took us weeks
to clean up the Model 14 TD's!!!  Then, they hit another office
and painted everything chocolate brown! Good old 1970's colors. Previously, all of the 
machines were the brown wrinkle Teletype Corp. color...

Gray-green forever!!!!

Jack WA2HWJ




-------------- Original message from 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 
> > 
> > 
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