[GreenKeys] Dow Jones Pedestal printer...

[Pete Lancashire]

Does anyone have a scan of the output from one of these guys

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Kenneth Gartland <trnsrme at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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