[GreenKeys] Dow Jones Pedestal printer...

[Jack]

My favorite TTY story was when I was a TTY repairman for NY Telephone
in the 1970's. We had a large county-wide TTY network with Model 28's that
was used by the Nassau County Police Department. I got a "call out" one
night at 2:00AM to check a machine in a small town department.
After getting my truck and driving over to the PD, I found a bullet
hole in the 28ASR's keyboard. The on-duty cop told me he got so frustrated
trying
to send a message that he shot the machine...!   
We replaced the keyboard the next day...no questions asked.

Jack K2TTY

NNNN

-----Original Message-----
From: GreenKeys [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
Kenneth Gartland
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 9:41 AM
To: GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [GreenKeys] Dow Jones Pedestal printer...

Hi all...

Lots of great chatter on this Dow Jones printer...

When I worked in Montreal,PQ back in 1970, there were still plenty of these
in service...Also a great number of the very familiar 5-A Teletype
tickers...

There was enuf Dow Jones equipment in service at the time, our company CP
Telecommunications, had a permanent guy stationed downtown to look after
these machines...

This particular printer, did use a "Typewheel: printing mech, quite simple
in design...

Interestingly, every morning before the markets opened locally, DJ in New
York, wud send a long "Synchronizing" pulse, which wud ensure, when real
quote transmissions began, every machine was thus locked in to the incoming
feed...

The little mystery box with the rotating disk mentioned earlier in the
fotos, is an ink well which supplies ink to the typewheel each time it
passes back & forth over it!

The print copy was usually of a purple colour similar to the ink used in the
5-A ticker felt roller...

I briefly worked on these machines, when the DJ maintainer tech was on
vacation, or busy elsewhere on other calls...

The weirdest call ever, was from one of our brokers in Ottawa, who
complained the "Paper wasn't. cutting properly"...

Upon arrival, the old guy showed me the scissors which hung from the machine
pedestal, and the rivet had worn out holding the two halves together, and
the blades had come apart...

He was very insistant it be repaired on the spot...So out came my big
American Beauty soldering iron, and back in svc in minutes later...

The old guy was ecstatic, and said what great service we provided!!!

One of my favourite brokerage memories from back in the day!

Cheers!

Ken VE3-HMQ
i-Telex 61663
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