[GreenKeys] ticker tape ID, and pics from Andromeda Strain

[Duncan M. Brown]

We have a Dow-Jones "Bulletin Printer" at the AWA Museum.  I have never dug
into it to see what makes it run, but it looks relatively simple.

  --Duncan


> [Original Message]
> From: Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
> To: <gil at baudot.net>
> Cc: greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: 02-Jan-10 11:58:56
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] ticker tape ID, and pics from Andromeda Strain
>
> Almost certainly one of the glass-bell-jar style of tickers.  I don't know
> exactly when the Teletype ticker came into service, but it was
> around 1930.
>
> Something I've never seen, and I don't know who made it, but Dow-Jones
> had a "bulletin printer" that printed on a narrower page than a regular
> Teletype.  Believe it used 6-level code.  I saw one on ebay once, in
> an art-deco style cabinet and pedestal.  So the scrap of page printer
> copy could have come from a Model 12 (news wire service) or from a
> bulletin printer (financial news wire service).
>
>
>
>
> jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
>
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