[GreenKeys] Fw: Under 40?! Call out for age...

[Nico de Jong]

>From: Mark Hall 
>Hello all,
>
>
>The query posted about any Greenkeyers "under 40" made me curious...

>That's a real dangerous thing for me. 
>

>What is the age range of Greenkeyers on here? 
>

>Can we identify who our tribal elders are, and who are the "tenderfoots"?

Well, I'm 70. I ran first into teleprinters when I was employed by the dutch PTT. 
At that time, around 1975-1984, the "production" models were Siemens T68 and T100.
We had Model 14's as backup system, meaning that we had a lot of them, about 40 or so, and each of them was connected to one specific telegtraph office. 
For everyday use, we had 9 T68's (later T100's) for receiving telegrams, with answerbacks "31068 Rx GV NL", where the x could be A..I. 
Then we had about 8 for transmitting telegrams, and they were aptly called "31068 Tx GV NL", GV standing for 's-Gravenhage, or as english speakers call it :The Hague.
We had 5-6 T100's for receiving telegrams from telex subscribers. Words were then counted, billed, and sent on via 31068 Tx.

Normally, a country would have a special prefix, just like with telephones today.
However, we had 4 foreign telegraph offices with dutch subscriber numbers : Montreal (11680), East Berlin (31275), Warszawa (31751) and Praha (31677) (If I recall correctly).
This did inbetween give some problems, e.g. when a west german office needed to talk to east berlin, when the russions (or STASI) had blocked the incoming lines.
In this case, I did once give the dutch number to EastBerlin to the Frankfurt/Main office. 
/Nico


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