[GreenKeys] sneak peek of the secret project

[David I. Emery]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 04:48:10PM -0600, Jack Hart wrote:
> I once saw a Model 15 with a clear plastic cover...in fact, it was at the 1965 World’s Fair
> 
> in NY. It might have been in the Bell System exhibit. I spent so much time at the Bell exhibit they
> 
> knew me by name! They also had a Model 35ASR on display.


	My memory is as vivid but a bit different.

	In the summer of 1964 I traveled with my father and a friend and
his father to the NYC World's Fair in Flushing Meadows.

	And I too remember the AT&T Bell system building and exhibit.

	But what I remember is they had 3 model 28s sans cases side by
side inside a big Plexiglas box with paper winders on the paper.   One
was on the AP A wire national newspaper circuit,  the second was on the
UPI radio wire I think (or maybe their A newspaper wire) and the third
was on a US weather bureau public forecast wire that once in a while
spat forth zone forecasts for the NY state area.

	I had already encountered model 15s (inside the usual black
steel felt lined cases with crinkle finish) at a local radio station
on the AP radio wire... and was quite familiar with how they worked
and what they looked like.

	And I had seen 28s at the local WFO at Logan in Boston... but
this was the first time I got to watch a 28 mechanism print and I remember
noticing that they were using 28s on news wires rather than 15s.

	All this convinced me I had to have one and that fall I bought
my first model 14 and started out playing with RTTY...

	Been down hill ever since...


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