[GreenKeys] Re: Fax Machine Used in Flags of our Fathers

[sdaitch at mor.ibb.gov]

Glen,

that just sparked a memory and a question.

Seems to me that was also the brand of wire photo the AP was using
into the late 1970s.

Was the machine about 5 feet high or so, and the drum was horizontal
about in the middle of the machine?

The AP was shifting to LaserPhoto machines, made by Harris, at the 
end of the decade, but there was one wet chemical paper machine 
in the Raleigh bureau, as a monitor for the wirephoto network.

I think the wirephoto subscribers had been using the same machine,
but I don't remember servicing any of the machines, other than the
one in the office.

The bureau did not need the photos for publication, but only a 
circuit reference, as best I can remember, and I can also guess
they were trying to use up the stock of supplies, the treated
paper and the thin metal blades used to keep the paper against the
rotating drum.

73
Sheldon

----- Original Message -----
From: eldim at att.net
Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2007 9:30 pm
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Re: Fax Machine Used in Flags of our Fathers

> Fantastic Pictures of the TXC-1.
> I trained on this machine at Keesler AFB, Boloxi, Mississippi in1962.
> However, I never did encounter this unit in the field.  I did work 
> on the Muirhead, an English FAX machine using a rotating Helix 
> Scanning system  and a chemical impregnated sensitive paper that 
> was around 19" wide. This was in Italy and Germany in 68 thru 72 
> and was for creating current weather maps for briefing air-crews. 
> The ammonia  smell given off was putrid, not to mention the noisy 
> clatter and the chatter of the Teletype Machines. We had several 
> of these machines in operation simultaneously in an adjacent room 
> to the Weather Forcasting Unit.  These were interesting machines 
> to works on.  A fellow Ham gave me 2 or 3 of them which I :<( 
> sadly dismantled for the parts, and metals.  
> 73,
> Glen Galati, KA7BOJ