[GreenKeys] Teletype Switchboard photo...

[DR HOUSE]

First of all the setup is for a manual photo.
The Eveready batteries and the vintage "Line Unit" are just part of the
suggested set up to be used in the field.
I think they used the "barn doors" to keep the readers attention on the
equipment and the operator rather than any scenery.

Don


On 12 Mar 2012, at 1:55 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote:

I'll have to guess on this one

The unit behind the two what look like low voltage Eveready batteries
is a way to get the voltage/current
from the batteries to something usable.

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:31 AM, DR HOUSE <k9tty at dls.net> wrote:
>
> In the photo I sent previously you will notice the position markers 30
> through 34.
> When the board was removed in 1962-63 one of my friends saved the  
> marker
> from #34.
> It is in a filing cabinet in San Diego along with other items I  
> wished I
> still had.
>
> Also notice the rotary dials.  In 1938 there was no dial TWX service.
> I am not sure how the dials were used but I suspect they were used  
> to switch
> the
> Model 14  keyboard strip printers from one position to another or for
> selecting trunks to
> different offices in conjunction with the cord circuits.
>
> While working as a Teletype repairman in 1969 I routined a M28 KSR  
> with a
> rotary
> dial at the Williams Brothers Pipeline in Elk Grove Village, ILL.  The
> station was
> part of a SCATS network of private line Teletype machines.
>
> If my memory serves me I believe that SCATS stood for Sequential  
> Controlled
> Automated Teletype Service... or Switch Controlled Autom...,......
>
> Here is another photo of a Model 14 Keyboard Strip Printer being  
> used by the
> U.S. Army Signal Corps in 1932.  The machine appears to be new.  The  
> photo
> was
> most likely used in a training manual.  Can you figure out what  
> equipment is
> in
> front of the soldier's feet?
>
> Best,
> Don
> K9TTY
>
>
>
>
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