[GreenKeys] Moving Platens...

[Don Robert House]

Fred wrote:

don im not sure if it was you that said the platen on all
teletype machines was stationary and did not move across like a
typewriter have you looked at a model 105 lately
the paper roll has to move across with the platen.
i save all your sage words.
hope to see you on the keys someday

de fred n4nms former n9cmh of superior,wi.
73

Hi Fred,

I hope I did not say that.  Several Teletype machines do have a  
moving platen with a stationary type carriage.
The Teletype Model 12 and the Model 26 are the best known machines.  
There may have been others.

The Model 101, 102, 103, 104, and 105 are Western Union  
teletypewriters built under contract by Underwood.
They all have moving platens.  They are not of Teletype manufacture  
nor design.

73
Don K9TTY

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