[GreenKeys] Model 15

[Keelan Lightfoot]

Dave,

You sound like a kid on Christmas eve! I completely understand.

May your teletype arrive in one piece, stinkin' of old oil.

- Keelan

On 2011-08-06, at 6:49 PM, Dave Hunter wrote:

> Hi All:
> 
> This is a re-post of a message I sent earlier, and because 
> of its tital, I think it might have gotten caught up in an 
> errant internet content filter (was: Anticipation...)
> 
> Here I am, not so patiently awaiting the arrival of a Model
> 15 (actually a Signal Corps TT-5 FG)...
> 
> It was from a gentleman in Boston, and I was able to 
> arrange to have it brought here by a web site user who 
> lives in Boston, and was visiting the Island.  
> 
> I will have it here some time tomorrow afternoon. I can't
> wait. Here is a photo taken by its former owner:
> 
> http://www.islandregister.com/phones/teletype/model15a.jpg
> 
> It is missing one keytop, which has been found thanks to a 
> member of the list, and which actually arrived earlier in 
> the week ahead of the actual machine. 
> 
> I will let you know how it works after I have a chance to 
> check it out. I had been looking for a Model 15 for a 
> couple of years now - back in the mid-80's, I had one which 
> I used on radioteletype, but before the museum was even a 
> dream, I gave it away, and have regretted it ever since.  
> 
> At the same time, I loaned a Leigh KSR-33 to a friend. Last
> year, he reminded me that I had done so, and I got it back,
> after he had stored it in his leaky barn for 20 years. It
> was in bad shape, but I managed to refurbish it, and it has
> been on display for the better part of a year now, in a
> working demo..
> 
> So I hope that I will have the same luck with the Model 15!
> 
> Dave
>