[GreenKeys] Teletype Model 14 restoration - it has a stock ticker font!

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Mon Feb 21 02:42:37 EST 2011


    Jim Haynes sent me a Model 14 tape printer that needed some
work to get it going. I now have it typing, and it turns
out that it has a "fractions" font, with fractions
1/8, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 5/8, 3/4, and 7/8:

    http://www.aetherltd.com/public/stocktickerfont.jpg

I found a font table at

    http://www.baudot.net/docs/smith--teletype-codes.pdf

It's NOT a Dow Jones 5A ticker; that's a different machine,
with a 6-bit code and ticker-style figures and numbers printed
on separate lines.

The base and case are WU green, but the typing unit may not match
the base; the keyboard is US TTY, not Fractions.  Interesting.

    (I've been making blank paper tape by running adding machine
rolls through an 8mm shredder.  This is a stopgap measure until
one of the three sources I'm trying for tape comes through.)

				John Nagle





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