[GreenKeys] Fwd: Model 26 Manuals on eBay.... my comments...

[Don Robert House]

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From: Don Robert House <drhouse at nadcomm.com>
Date: 9 May 2007 11:06:50 PM CDT
To: "H.E.Robert Weir-L.V.C.C." <ueoguy at yahoo.com>
Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: Model 26 manuals on ebay


Hi Bob,

The fellow wanted those practices very bad.  You know I would have  
shared.  My last bid with shipping included was $75.00 I just could  
not go any higher without attending divorce court.
Somewhere at our museum is a photocopy of an early practice on the  
M26 but it is hard to read and not complete.

The winning bidder was a late comer or I would have asked for  
volunteers to help pay for this set of practices.

I will write to the winning bidder and see if they will see me copies  
of the documents.

Don
K9TTY

On 9 May 2007, at 10:04 PM, H.E.Robert Weir-L.V.C.C. wrote:

Hi Don,

I'm sorry you lost the bid on those manuals, I was hoping to get a  
copy from you!

Anyone on the list know the chap who won, wbretz?

Anyway, I was surfing for tty info, and found a interesting tidbit  
from Dartmouth University.....

In 1940 a milestone event, not well remembered until recently  
(Loveday 1977), took place at Dartmouth. Dr. George Stibitz of the  
Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated publicly for the first time,  
at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society, the  
remote use of a computer over a communications line. The computer was  
a relay calculator designed to carry out arithmetic on complex  
numbers. The terminal was a Model 26 Teletype.

Just Bob!