[GreenKeys] wooden-cased TTY on ebay

[w8au at sssnet.com]

At 10:34 PM 8/10/2010, dmm at lemur.com wrote:
>Out of a newbie's curiousity, what is the wood-cased Teletype listed
>on ebay as item 130419736422 ?  It's too rich for my budget, but I'm
>just curious.

It looks exactly like a Morse perforator.  And...upon close 
inspection of the tape punch
head, you see a two-level perforator with a center sprocket 
punch.  Morse tape was
a two level system to drive an on-off keying arrangement.  Although 
it is labeled
as a teletype perforator, it's just a Morse perforator made by Teletype Corp.

And it will never sell for that price! (Unless someone has a CW museum?)
I have had two of them over the years and still have one.  They are
useless unless you have a Boehme or McElroy keying head to send the CW.
Today's computers do this with software.

W1AW used this older system until 30-40 years ago.  Maritime Coastal stations
did also, but in later years switched to computers.

Perry  w8au