[GreenKeys] Teletype in a radio museum

[Jones, Douglas W]

On May 9, 2014, at 12:54 PM, Roy Morgan wrote:

> News On the Hour
>  If you can get a tape reader and some appropriate tapes, stage a “News on the Hour” event from time to time:  The tapes could be from our ITTY system, or made up from historical events  (Hillary scales Everest, VE day announcement, Sputnik).

Current news is also interesting.  When I was a kid in the 1960s,
the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago had a Teletype and
a Telefax machine hooked to one of the wire services, with the
TTY banging away with that wire service's news, 8 hours a day,
and the Telefax machine printing the black and white photostream
that went with the news story feed.  This was in the communications
section of the museum, and it has long since been displaced by
modern touchy-feely museum displays that dumb things down and
spoon feed the audience far less information than used to be
conveyed.

What model teletype?  Probably a Model 28 RO, but you have to realize
that my memory of this is very old.  Was there a Telefax machine
that looked similar?  The two machines looked like twins, except
that the fax printer had a helical bar that rotated to scan across
the page while the "hammer" was a straight bar that squeezed the
ribbon against the paper and spiral bar when a dark spot was needed.

		Doug Jones
		jones at cs.uiowa.edu