[GreenKeys] Model 20 Teletype available

[Bill Buzbee]

I'm under the impression that most AP & UPI radio station services used
Model 15s - no need for upper/lower case, paper tape or typesetting if you
are reading the copy over the air.  I think I remember my dad telling me
that in the early 60s, the small Kansas newspaper that he worked at signed
up for the UPI radio station feed because it was cheaper than the newspaper
feed.  It came with a Model 15, and any UPI story that they decided to run
was actually retyped on the big hot-lead Linotype machine.  Later on, as the
town grew and the paper got bigger, they moved to an offset press and the AP
 newspaper subscription (with Model 20s and punched tape at first, then
Extel printers sometime in the mid to late 70s.
...Bill Buzbee

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Kevin King <kc6ovd at comcast.net> wrote:

> It is just as I took it out of service at the radio station. Now mine is a
> UP and not AP but it is the same otherwise. I will look closer at it in the
> morning to count the bell cranks
>
> -Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Robert House [mailto:Packard42 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 10:56 PM
> To: Kevin King
> Cc: gfmurphy at earthlink.net; 'Greenkeys'
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Model 20 Teletype available
>
> Many of the Model 20s were cobbled back into Model 15s by HAMs.
>
> It is rare to find a fully functional M20 these days.
>
> Don
>
>
> On 9 Jan 2009, at 9:42 PM, Kevin King wrote:
>
> I have that very same machine. I always thought it was a 15. Mine is in
> better shape then that one. I had mine at the radio station and now
> use it
> on my dovetron. So you say it is a 6 level box?
>
> -Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Don Robert House
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 6:05 PM
> To: gfmurphy at earthlink.net
> Cc: Greenkeys
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Model 20 Teletype available
>
> The best recipient on earth to receive this M20 is RICEGUY.
>
> The man knows every part in the machine and is good at maintaining it.
>
> GO FOR IT RICEGUY!!!!
>
> Old Don
> K9TTY
>
>
>
> On 9 Jan 2009, at 12:39 PM, gfmurphy at earthlink.net wrote:
>
>
> There is an Associated Press Model 20 receive only printer available
> on that
> popular auction website.  Look for item number 250354556451 or use
> search
> words "Teletype" or "Associated Press."  The description says it is a
> Model
> 15 but that is incorrect.  The seller has 8 pictures of the printer.
> Look
> at picture number 6 which shows the front of the printer with the
> cover off.
> There are 6 bellcranks running from the type carriage to the horizontal
> vanes.  A Model 15 has 5 bellcranks.  Also, look at the number of
> typebars
> - there's a lot more than on a Model 15.  This machine is located near
> Utica, New York.  Hopefully, some Greenkeyer can find a home for this
> rare
> machine.     Keep those machines running!
> Regards,  Jerry Murphy
>
>
>
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