[GreenKeys] Teletype Model 15 KSR on Craigslist in the LasVegasarea

[Jim Haynes]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, John Foust wrote:

> You'd think that someone in Skokie would want to leverage that
> part of their heritage.
>
Skokie has a museum, which is located in an old fire house and is quite
small.  What they have on display is mostly fire equipment.  I asked
if they would be interested in Teletype stuff and they simply don't
have enough room for it.

I've also contacted Chicago History Museum several times.  The routine
there seems to be that if a curator on the staff gets interested in
something then they pursue it; so I haven't been able to stir up anyone
interested.

I'm told that Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago once had some
Teletype equipment.  I was there a few years ago - they had an exhibit
about the Internet, but no real equipment in sight.

Pioneer Village is a private museum in Minden Nebraska, has a little
bit of Teletype equipment but not much in the way of explanation about
what it does.

Har-Ber Village in NE Oklahoma is somewhat similiar to Pioneer Village
but less technological.

Antique Wireless Association is now accepting more stuff - for a long
time they had no place to put any of it.  Duncan Brown will tell us
more about it.

There's the Telecom museum in Seattle run by Telephone Pioneers.  I 
haven't seen it, but videos are quite impressive, and they have some
interest in Teletype equipment.

The computer history museum in Mountain View, Calif. seems to be big and
well funded and is starting to develop an interest in telegraphy, I'm
told.

There are lots of railroad museums around the country, some having Morse
telegraphy displays and maybe some limited Teletype.

There's a military electronics museum near the Baltimore-Washington
airport.  It seems to have been started by Westinghouse and continued
by Northrop-Grumman.  A great deal of emphasis on airborne radar and
countermeasures, but there are some elementary electrical exhibits, a
ham radio station, and a Teletype machine included in the displays.

Camp Evans in New Jersey, once a facility connected with Ft. Monmouth,
is being turned over to various community groups for museum and 
educational purposes.  It was originally a Marconi station.  There is
an antique radio section, and a military radio section that I'm aware of.
It's very much a work-in-progress.