[GreenKeys] Re: Purple ribbon stains

[Don Robert House]

I spoke with a lady in Nevada when in California; she sold me several  
GDC 101D Datasets.
I cannot remember what happened to them.
Anyway she promised to call me when her family finished arguing about  
the inktronic printer her father had.
He had passed on and the family thought it was worth a lot of money.
She said that every once in a while her dad would try different  
applications to print and ink would fly across the room.
He kept it in the basement and eventually painted the concrete purple  
to match the ink stains.

Don
K9TTY


On 13 Nov 2008, at 4:27 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:

And if you think that's bad, try purple Inktronic ink.  There was a
saying that you could tell everywhere in the Teletype R&D building
the Inktronic project had been, by the purple stains on the floors.

Then there is the story Bill Lill tells about early work on the
Inktronic when they were still in the Wrightwood building.  He was
heating up a mixture of some solvent and the purple pigment when
the beaker broke, spilling the hot ink all over the front of him.
Since Teletype had not done any chemistry work there were no chemical
accident showers, so he tells of running through a conference room
to get to the nearest men's room to get some cold water on.

The W.U. office in my home town seemed to use black and purple printer
ribbons interchangeably at random.  I guess it was whatever the manager
ordered, or whatever the company sent out.



jhhaynes at earthlink dot net

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