[GreenKeys] Another question for old Bell System guys

[MURRAY, WALLACE W (ATTASIAIT)]

I know that we had DC power distribution in Downtown Detroit.  Did Con
Edison do the same thing in downtown Chicago.  Possibly the reason for
DC TTY motors.  I understand that one of the reasons DC power lasted so
long in Detroit was that the elevator motors in some of the building ran
on DC.

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Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Another question for old Bell System guys


We had customers with DC motors in downtown Chicago.   The last of them
was a 3 row TWX at the Chicago Motor Club on South Water St.
 
Now where is my tuning fork?
 
 


--- On Mon, 12/15/08, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:


	From: Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
	Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Another question for old Bell System
guys
	To: "Don Robert House" <Packard42 at gmail.com>
	Cc: "Jim Haynes" <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>,
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	Date: Monday, December 15, 2008, 10:54 AM
	
	
	The date on the book is November, 1940.
	
	There is a lot of other odd stuff in there, like 130V DC motors
- 
	obviously for the central office; a character counter in a
separate
	box, a motor control relay, bell on blank, and some things I
can't
	recognize.  Also the crank out the front on the range finder for
	test board use.
	
	The tape handling mechanism for 2" wide tape seems to have two
of
	the typical Model 14 narrow platens spaced apart so they engage
the
	tape at the edges.  Hence printing has to be on one or both
edges of
	the tape, not anywhere in the middle; and I would guess that it
is
	on only one edge of the tape.  The character set for type
pallets
	is the fraction set or the communication set.
	
	This could of course be for a Bell System customer and not for
internal
	Bell System use.
	
	
	
	jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
	
	

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