[GreenKeys] Can You Identify This reader-punch unit?

[Chris Elmquist]

Don, Thanks for forwarding.  I never saw Dave's original message.

It sure does look like the punch on the side of that Flexowriter.
Too bad we don't have another photo or two up close of the punch.

But Thanks Dave.  I'll forward to the guy who really wants to know...

Chris N0JCF

On Saturday (09/26/2009 at 12:52AM -0500), Don Robert House wrote:
> David,
> 
> I may have to ask you for help.  I am getting more elderly each day!
> 
> Thanks for the link.
> 
> Don
> 
> 
> On 25 Sep 2009, at 11:21 PM, David Weil wrote:
> 
> Hi Don:
> I would guess it's from a Friden Flexowriter... see
> 
> <http://www.cca.org/tech/rcs/pb250/flexo-1.jpg>
> 
> 
> 
> It's just a guess - been away from all this for too many years, now...
> 
> David Weil, HICAP Program Mananger
> A program of Elder Law & Advocacy
> 
> Formerly of the Computer Museum of America (San Diego Computer Museum)
> www.computer-museum.org
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Robert House [mailto:k9tty at dls.net]
> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 8:42 PM
> To: Chris Elmquist
> Subject: Re: Can You Identify This reader-punch unit?
> 
> On 24 Sep 2009, at 9:25 AM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
> 
> Hey Guys,
> 
> Can anyone identify the punch unit on this website,
> 
> <http://www.ericmackonline.com/ICA/BLOGS/emonline.nsf/dx/nonmagnetic-digital
> -storage-at-10-bytes-per-second
> >
> 
> Chris,
> 
> The parts used have a Teletype "look" to them.  The placement of the
> parts such as springs and levers and gears all look NOT like other
> manufacturers.
> A couple of manufacturers based their designs on license from TTY
> Corp.  Also interesting... if you were to change the mechanism to
> plastic instead of metal, the mechanism might look like the reader
> tape device used on the Model 4310.  Notice also that the paper tape
> is one inch wide but only 7 levels of information are punched.  WUTCo
> did not believe in 8 level data.  They used 7/8 inch tape and only 7
> levels of information... food for thought.
> 
> My first guess was Siemens.  Or perhaps a Western Union experimental
> unit.  Someone within the long arm of Greenkeys will recognize it
> eventually.
> 
> Good luck on your treasure hunt.  My hunt has gone south with the
> birds.  There seems to be no one left on the planet that can ID this
> very early Western Union printer...  The ribbon mechanism is UNDER the
> base.  Unless there was a hole in the table you would have to lift 60
> pounds of cast iron to change the ribbon...
> 
> Best,
> Don
> 
> 
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