[GreenKeys] A first look inside the Pasco 35 ASR

[Don Robert House K9TTY]

Pete,

The General system frequently purchased Bell System machines for special network applications.
Your 35 was built to operate on a private selective calling system, similar to the 81D1, 8A1, 8B1, etc., etc.

A tape would be placed in the TD and if it was a routine message the bid lamp/button would be pushed.
If the message was urgent the repeat bid would be depressed.  The master station would poll all of 
the machines on the network that were "bidding" to send a message.

The phone here does not ring in the middle of the night anymore.  I was never happy with call outs on full period* circuits.
People would keep calling to ask when the machine was going to be fixed.  Then the following work day would be very tiring.

Don K9TTY
former Illinois Bell Communications Serviceman

* Full Period was 24/7/365… we were supposed to have them repaired within 2 hours including "windshield time."


On 08 Aug 2015, at 12:15 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote:

> The phone numbers on the base's cover are from Bridgport Washingtion, a sleepy little town that in in 1977 had a population of about 1,000. The only thing of size that I can find that would of needed at Teletype was just next door is the Chief Joseph dam.
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> They mystery of "REPEAT BID / SINGLE BID" is still unsolved
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> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com> wrote:
> https://goo.gl/photos/ia3pxMajyJXu5EeK7
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> No time to pretty up the pictures
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> Don't worry will not try powering it up :-)
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> Although the front shows Bell System the insides show GTE 1976
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> Keyboard is damaged, don't know how much but a link is dangling down
> about the same area the 8 keycap is missing.
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> The Mode switch is 'floating' as in loose from its retaining nut
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> The sound deadening foam has made a big mess,  not really surprised
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> There is a loose wire near the punch
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> Biggest bummer to me is the document in the base is empty.
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