[GreenKeys] machines in need of rescue in Milleville (southern) New Jersey (BY AUG 1)

[gil at baudot.net]

Hey folks:

A fellow has some machines in need of rescue in Milleville (southern)
New Jersey, which must be out of his shed by Aug 1.  He is on he road to
Ohio until about July 10th I believe, and I hope is back in NJ for the
last couple of weeks of July.

He is looking for homes for:

Model 26 KSR

Model 28 ??? (Prints on paper tape)

Model 35 KSR

+ a few tape perforators and readers.


please contact Paul McConnell at:  pmcconnell at snip.net

If his email has stopped working, his phone is:  856 825 6257  (no
answering machine).

Kinda short notice, but hopefully someone is nearby and can get together
with him to save these machines.

thanks,

gil



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Gil:

Several years ago the company I worked for in Ohio
downsized and eliminated my job. At the time, my
father was 91 years old and living alone. In a hasty
move to New Jersey I lugged the Teletypes with me and
put them in a shed behind my father's house.

Dad passed away a while ago, and I have recently
retired and am in the process of moving back to Ohio
to be near my children. There will be no room for
the Teletypes back there.

Unfortunately, the squirrels have made a bit of a
mess out in the shed, but have caused no real damage.

I have never run any of the machines. The machine
I call the Model 28 came from a New Jersey Bell
Telephone Company central office back in the mid-1970s.
Perhaps I have got the Model number wrong - it has
been a long time since I looked at it very closely.
The machines are now on shelves behind other heavy
things, and I am not able to get to the designation
plates easily.

As I recall, the machine was used to test N.J. State
Police Teletype circuits. It originally sat on a
metal shelf in an equipment bay. It was working
right up until the minute the Western Electric
installers pulled the plugs and turned it over to
me.

>From where it is perched now, I can see through a
small plastic window set back into the cabinet above
the keyboard, just left of center. There is a small
printing unit at the center, above the keyboard. A
narrow paper tape exits toward the left, across a
horizontal stainless steel plate about the size of a
3X5 index card. The small plastic window stands at
the right edge of the plate. A small page holder is
located on the right side of the cabinet, above the
keyboard.

The paper tape is narrow, like the tape pasted on
telegrams. There are no perforations on the tape.

Too bad I don't have a camera!

I think the perforator and reader are Model 14 and 15,
but I forget which is which. I got them at a surplus
equipment sale at a Western Electric location. They
had belonged to the plant's Amateur Radio Club.
I have no clue when they were last used.

The Model 26 looks more like a typewriter - it is tall
and black, a table-top unit. It came from a surplus
store, and it is not in working condition.

The Model 35 was given to me by a coworker who had
obtained it for use as a computer terminal back
before home computers were called "PCs". He had built
a computer from a kit, and was going to create a
teletype interface for it, but commercial technology
outpaced him.

My telephone number is 856 825 6257.

I live in the past - the phone is the original black
rotary dial set installed in the house that my father
completed building in 1958.

There is no answering machine or cell phone.

I am usually around the house - seldom gone for more
than an hour or two. I will welcome your call
on any day, from 0800 through 2100.

The machines are in Millville, New Jersey.


Looking forward to sending these old veterans
to a happy home,

Paul
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