[GreenKeys] Bell nomenclature...

[Don Robert House]

It seems that all industries have nomenclature.  When I first met the  
Teletype crew in Wheeling, Illinois  I was very nervous.  Fresh out of  
the Navy I had no idea how I was going to learn about all of the 600  
odd machines we had to maintain..
One of the three guys that worked out of Waukegan grinned and slapped  
me on the back.  John Davis, a great guy,  said "Don, you will fit  
right in here, the only difference between the Navy and Illinois Bell  
is the color of the trucks."

The recent communications about print hammer heads finally snapped up  
a bit of memory in my brain... Several of the guys would ask me "Hey  
Don do we have any more of those tiny hockey pucks for the 33s?"  I  
would answer... "We are getting low but I have ordered more."  They  
also referred to the print hammers for 28s and 35s as "pecker heads."   
I am hopeful that someday I will find a Supplies Code Ordering LIst  
(SCOL) to use as a reference.  It would have to be older than 1979.

Old Don
K9TTY

BAR, FUNCTION UNIVERSAL
HEAD, PRINT HAMMER
UNIT, TYPING 28E
UNIT, TYPING 35B
RIBBON, TELETYPE BLACK RECORD




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