[GreenKeys] Musical Teletype Machines

[Bruce Gentry]

On 1/2/13 2:05 PM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> Don ? do you have an audio tape of this!?
> Ed#
> In a message dated 1/2/2013 11:56:56 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, 
> k9tty at dls.net writes:
>
>     BOYS AND GIRLS CAN HUG AND KISS BUT THEY GET IN TROUBLE WHEN THEY GO
>     LIKE THIS... FIGS  LTRS FIGS LTRS FIGS LTRS FIGS LTRS FIGS LTRS BELL
>     BELL
>
>     The above message also worked pretty well on the M37 due to the size
>     of the typebox.
>
>     Old Don, K9TTY
>     TTY Repairman 1966-1970
>
>
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This and a few other variations were extremely popular when I was in the 
Air Force forty plus years ago. Model 15 and 19s were the most animated, 
but the Teletype maintainance guys did not like the practice. Most 
officers got a laugh out of it, but the career NCOs (especially if they 
were socially conservative) yelled at us. They claimed it put a lot of 
stress on the shift mechanism if you sent figs-ltrs-figs-ltrs 
immediately after each other.
  Under pressure they would admit there was no issue if you sent a space 
or paused a moment between figs-ltrs.

      Bruce Gentry  KA2IVY
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