[GreenKeys] Over the top collecting

Sun Feb 3 22:46:40 EST 2013

the one  I am trying to  get is the stromberg carlson  vistaphone    it was 
like a picture phone 2   kid of  the  rectangular box  on a stand... but it 
 goes in a specific  history display here  that  a bell unit  just  would  
not  fit..

In a message dated 2/3/2013 7:54:35 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
wa2hwj at att.net writes:

I was a teenager during the 1965 World's Fair. I visited the Fair  many 
times, being a local. I spent 99% of my time in the Bell system  exhibit, 
riding through it to see the Teletypes (I remember the 35ASR)  and the color TV 
(never saw color before that!). 

Jack K0TTY

--- On Sun, 2/3/13, David Burns  <dvdbrns at rcn.com> wrote:

From:  David Burns <dvdbrns at rcn.com>
Subject: [GreenKeys] Over the  top collecting
To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Date: Sunday,  February 3, 2013, 8:28 PM

That eBay Picturephone was probably assembled by hand at Bell  Labs.  
Western Electric never set-up a production line for that  unit.

I was at the 1965 World's Fair in NY as a child, and I  remember the booth 
for the Picturephone.  I remember seeing a  display model (not in 
operation), and the line for the  real-deal.  We didn't do it, but we watched other 
people as I  recall.

I was more fascinated by the TT Model 35 I saw  (either at the A. T. & T. 
exhibit, or very near by.)  At my  request, the family went back to see that 
Model 35 run once more  before we left the fair .  I couldn't believe how 
they got that  little box of typebars to dance around, and the hammer that 
seemed to  hit the backs exactly right, but so fast you couldn't really see  
it.  You can keep your Picturephone, that bouncing  type-bar box was 
-amazing-.  (Still  is!)

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