[GreenKeys] Model 14 typing reperf on eBay

[Duncan Brown]

RD,

The units in the photo are Teletype Corp Model 14s.  There were two 
versions of the M14: 1) a typing reperforator, that made a perforated 
tape and also typed on it and 2) a machine that just typed the message 
on an narrow tape; aka a "tape printer" or "strip printer."  The tape 
printer was widely used by Western Union and WU referred to it as the 
"Model 2B".  WU used a gummed tape that could be glued down to the WU 
message blanks.  WU initially preferred a tape printer over a page 
printer because if part of a message was garbled or lost, only that part 
had to be repeated and the new tape glued down onto the message form.

The M14 tape printer was also used as a TTY order wire where space &/or 
cost were a premium since it was smaller than a M15.

Have fun,

Duncan Brown, K2OEQ
USASA  31J

Antique Wireless Association Museum Asst. Curator, Commercial Equipment
(also Chief TTY operator & repairman)
http://www.antiquewireless.org/


On 11-Dec-13 13:55, Richard Dillman wrote:

> I write to ask for the assistance of the GreenKeys brain trust regarding this machine.  It looks similar to the typing reperf we see in a post war photo of the KPH operating room that I recall someone on this list identified as a 2B.  The machine is in the foreground of the photo seen here (in a different colored case):
>
> http://radiomarine.org/idbfiles/0000/0073/HIST-RS-DEN-1.jpg
>
> Thanks!
>
> RD
>
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