[GreenKeys] Model 20 Teletype available

[Duncan M. Brown]

I've emailed my E-bay buyer about it, if I don't hear from him tonight,
I'll call him in he AM.

I wondered about the AP label also, I know how covers can move around.
(When I was in the Army, the Kleinschmidt machines had their serial number
on the cover, so it was hard to keep track of units when operators switched
covers.)  But in one of the pictures, there is another AP label on the
chassis, under the range finder.

I can imagine the typesetter is pretty complicated (never seen one) so was
initially surprised to see a 6 level printer, but I suppose they just used
it for basic text monitoring.  

If we get it, we will definitely keep the AP label, but your friend can
come to the museum and look at it!

--Duncan


> [Original Message]
> From: Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
> To: Duncan M. Brown <duncanancy at earthlink.net>
> Date: 09-Jan-09 21:40:38
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Model 20 Teletype available
>
> I have a friend who lusts after the Associated Press placard, but
> said it was farther than he wanted to drive to pick up (from the DC
> area)  Seems like Rice is a lot farther away.
>
> That's news (no pun intended) to me too about AP sending 6-level
> stuff.  I thought it was just chains of newspapers that did that.
> Like the newspaper in my home town in SW Arkansas was affiliated
> with some other papers in the area using Teletypesetter.  Of course
> it would make some sense for AP to do it, since they are keyboarding
> the stuff to begin with.  Keyboarding for Teletypesetter is a bit
> more complicated because you have to keep track of how much text will
> fit into a column.  The perforator is quite a bit more complicated
> than the 5-level model, as it has to know about the widths of the
> proportional spaced characters, and then has has a variable space
> thing for the spacebands that the machine uses to fill out unused space
> on a line.
>
> Of course it's possible that the cover and placard originally came
> with a different machine.
>
> I'd say go ahead and bid on it for AWA, and if you win the bid and
> want to sell the placard you have a ready buyer.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
>