[GreenKeys] Teletype Museum Tour

Sun Aug 23 12:03:15 EDT 2015

Jim Haynes sent me a copy (thanks Jim). I quickly captured it and put it here:

http://1drv.ms/1PJBnQJ <http://1drv.ms/1PJBnQJ>

Caution: It is a BIG file, 800MB.The video is one hour and three minutes long.

I think others are working to clean it up and make it much better.  Here is an interim copy for now, until they are ready with something better.

Paul

> On Aug 14, 2015, at 3:10 PM, Gil Smith <gil at baudot.net> wrote:
> 
> Hey folks:
> 
> Ran (Ransom) Slayton was the author of the narration of the Teletype Museum Tour slide show, to accompany pictures taken of the collection in the 70s before the museum was closed.  Ray Seidlitz (see below), who found the only know remaining video tape of the narrated slide show, implies that it was made in the late 70s, though Tom Collura (see below) says it was made around in the mid-80s with a professional voice over person reading Slayton's narration.  I had thought it was Slayton narrating, but Jim or someone will have better details.
> 
> From a 1983-dated text file of his narration, I cleaned it up into a pdf in 2001:
> 
> http://www.baudot.net/docs/slayton--tty-museum.pdf <http://www.baudot.net/docs/slayton--tty-museum.pdf>
> 
> Back around 2006, Ray Seidlitz made DVDs of the museum tour available from the tape he found, and quite a few of us got those.  (see his post below).  It has poor image quality and came from an old video tape, but it was the first time we had the video and audio.  The audio is quite good.  I don't know if that video was posted online anywhere (I just have a DVD).
> 
> Around the same time, Mary Ann Hoffman, Archival & Web Services Manager at the IEEE History Center, contacted me saying she had a copy of the original (long lost) slides to the Teletype museum tour.  She eventually scanned them for me and sent me three CDs.  I meant to get those available to folks, and especially to Jim who quite wanted to see them, but they got buried in my mountain of stuff for years, resurfaced when I moved a couple of years back, then got buried again.  I am pleased to say that I just uploaded them to dropbox:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/gil-tty <http://tinyurl.com/gil-tty>
> or, if that does not work for some reason, try:
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/08zpbzuci5e2sv7/AAC2UFwNhgu-JJpW0fPmnzPxa?dl=0 <https://www.dropbox.com/sh/08zpbzuci5e2sv7/AAC2UFwNhgu-JJpW0fPmnzPxa?dl=0>
> 
> I always thought it would be great to re-construct the video by bringing the dvd version into a video editor, marking the slide changes on a timeline, and then replacing the video portion with a slide show from the hi-quality images.  Anyone know how to do that?
> 
> enjoy,
> 
> gil
> 
> 
> 2006 email from Ray Seidlitz:
> ============================
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <mailto:raynfay at comcast.net <mailto:raynfay at comcast.net>>Ray Seidlitz
> >To: <mailto:ex-teletype at yahoogroups.com <mailto:ex-teletype at yahoogroups.com>>ex-teletype at yahoogroups.com <mailto:ex-teletype at yahoogroups.com>
> >Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 4:31 PM
> >Subject: [ex-teletype] Teletype R&D Museum
> >
> >Here's some good news. While cleaning out a few things I came across 
> >an old, unlabeled video tape which I fortunately decided to play 
> >before discarding. It's a tape of the Teletype R&D museum!!!
> >
> >For those who never heard of it, the R&D organization had a practice 
> >over many years of saving samples of various pieces of equipment 
> >from the printing telegraph industry. The collection consisted of 
> >products from Teletype and competitors as well as some artifacts 
> >from the days of telegraph before there even was a Teletype Corp. 
> >They were collectively called the "R&D Museum" and for many years 
> >just kept in storage until someone might have a need to look at one 
> >as it may relate to some project currently being worked on.
> >
> >Around the early 1970s it was decided to display a selection of 
> >items from the museum in a room off the lobby on the second floor of 
> >T7 in Skokie, the R&D building. It was used to show to customers, 
> >visitors, employees, and anyone else who might have an interest in 
> >seeing it. Toward the end of the 70s the museum was dismantled and 
> >returned to storage because of the need for more office space. But 
> >before being dismantled, photographs were made of each display and 
> >Ran Slayton (now deceased) was brought back from retirement to put 
> >together a narration with the photographs to create the video tape documentary.
> >
> >Later, in the mid-80s, Bob Gianni (also now deceased) and I were 
> >given the distasteful task to get rid of "all that old junk" which, 
> >to us, was unconscionable. Through a few underhanded maneuvers, we 
> >managed to delay having to scrap this amazing collection for a 
> >couple of years until we arranged to donate most of the items to 
> >over a dozen museums across the country and one in England.
> >
> >The hour long video could use a little better lighting and focus in 
> >a few spots but it's the only copy in existence I know of and I've 
> >transferred it to DVD for permanence. It provides a unique history 
> >of the company and the industry up to the late 1970s and if you'd 
> >like to have a DVD copy, just let me know and I'll send you one. 
> >There's no charge.
> >
> >Bob Gianni was a close personal friend as well as a long time 
> >business colleague from the time we both started at Teletype on 
> >Wrightwood Ave. in Chicago in the mid-1950s. My wife, Fay, and I 
> >participate in an annual fund raising walk for the Leukemia and 
> >Lymphoma Society in memory and honor of Bob and others we know who 
> >are victims of leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease or, as in Bob's 
> >case, multiple myeloma. It's not necessary in order to obtain the 
> >DVD, but if you'd care to make a donation of any amount to support 
> >the Society and our walk to fight these blood cancers, just click on 
> >this link or paste it into your browser and thank you.
> >
> ><http://www.active.com/donate/ltnChicag/1767_faynray <http://www.active.com/donate/ltnChicag/1767_faynray>>http://www.active.com/donate/ltnChicag/1767_faynray <http://www.active.com/donate/ltnChicag/1767_faynray>
> >
> >Ray Seidlitz
> 
> 
> and one from Tom Collura:
> ===================
> >To: <ex-teletype at yahoogroups.com <mailto:ex-teletype at yahoogroups.com>>
> >From: "Tom Collura" <tomc at pantek.com <mailto:tomc at pantek.com>>
> >Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:00:25 -0400
> >Subject: Re: [ex-teletype] Teletype R&D Museum
> >
> >Ray and others,
> >
> >I remember that video tape. Bob Gianni was asked by Dick Tarbox to make
> >it up around 1985, as a way to help team-building in the 
> >company. Ran Slayton,
> >who was by then retired, was asked to identify the equipment and write
> >short descriptions of each piece. I helped coordinate it with the training
> >department, to make it into a video. They had a professional voice 
> >over person
> >read the descriptions, over the photos. And yes, the tape vaporized into
> >oblivion in the late 80's. I'm glad you found it. Good catch!
> >
> >Bob Gianni was also a very good friend of mine, over the 5 years I really
> >got to know him. And hardly a day goes by that I don't remember the
> >lessons learned at Teletype. I also have some small models of the
> >series 45 equipment that Chuck Winston had made up by Dreyfuss
> >to show to the executive types.
> >
> >It will be a pleasure to help support the Society.
> >
> >Tom Collura
> >Teletype R&D 1980 - 1988
> 
> 
> and a 2009 email from Duncan Brown:
> ===========================
> YES!! The AWA Museum Library does have a copy of the Teletype Corp. Museum
> list! I had never seen it (or heard of it) before. The original "book"
> was apparently 8 1/2 x 11" with a wire (notebook style) binding. Each
> piece of equipment had a page of description and a page with a photograph. 
> The copy we have is a xerographic copy on 11 x 17" paper, with the
> description and photograph side by side on the same sheet. (Some of the
> photographs did not copy well or were not very good to begin with, but are
> generally identifiable.) 
> 
> There are twelve volumes, each with 30-50 pages; this means about 500
> images with descriptions! Most are different Teletype Corp models,
> specials, prototypes or subassemblies. (Did you know that there was a
> version of the M15 where the carriage moved from right to left and it
> printed in Hebrew?) There are also some competitors' teletypewriters and
> some high-speed Morse equipment (Wheatstone perf. & siphon recorders). 
> 
> All description pages had the following lines (although they were not
> always all filled in):
> YEARS PRODUCED & QUANTITY:
> PRIMARY CUSTOMER:
> CLASSIFICATION CODE:
> MUSEUM EQUIPMENT CODE:
> TECHICAL BULLETINS & SPECS:
> PHOTO NO(S):
> PATENTS:
> LIBRARY REFERENCES:
> 
> Some pages had a notation "Donated to ..." on the top of the page. (The
> Chicago Museum of Science and Industry got many items.) There is no image
> of a title page or cover of the original book. The pages are numbered, but
> the items do not seem to be in any order.
> 
> I would like to be able to make this publication available to anyone who is
> interested, but it will take some time to index everything, scan all the
> pages and then put it together in some meaningful order (at least get all
> similar models/versions together). Sounds like a good winter project. 
> 
> have fun,
> Duncan, K2OEQ
> 
> >
> > Something else you might know about. I was told that when the Teletype
> > museum was cleared out, that they sent out books listing all the stuff
> > to a bunch of museums, which could ask for their pick of the items.
> > Presumably AWA museum received such a book, since you received some
> > equipment - wonder if the book is anywhere to be found.
> >
> > jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
> 
> 
> gil smith, AF7EZ
> greenkeys moderator
> gil at baudot.net <mailto:gil at baudot.net>
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