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

Wed Dec 30 04:23:23 EST 2015

I'm 63. I discovered Teletypes in college, around 1972. The industrial arts dept got a Model 15 and 19 somehow. We in the ham club got them working and then rigged up a surplus TCS radio set for RTTY using an ARRL Handbook TU (the one that used slug tuned TV width coils). I think we were on both 80m and 40m. I later rebuilt a lot of parts from hamfests into a working M15 for myself and years later it was my terminal for my MITS Altair 680b computer. But being in the Air Force, reassignment moves kept making me winnow down the household goods to be shipped, so I eventually parted with all the Teletype stuff except some manuals. Now retired, I'd like to find a 15 or 19 pair to set up for the WWII Aviation Museum where I'm a volunteer restoration guy. They'd make a dynamite interactive display!

Bad dream stuff: There was a junkyard outside Greenville, NC, that had tons of electronic stuff and a small hill of all kinds of teleprinter parts, trashed printers, tape readers, etc. IIRC, a lot may have been Kleinschmidt stuff. You could go in and rummage around and buy stuff by the pound. Now I wish I knew where it was and what happened to all that stuff. Or maybe I don't want to know, either......

Wayne
WB4OGM

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Lampert via GreenKeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
To: Mark Hall <ke5lib001 at gmail.com>
Cc: greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, Dec 29, 2015 12:35 pm
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Under 40?! Call out for age...

I may be one of the newest to this craft, even though I'm 64 years young.
Until the summer of 2014, the only connection I had to Teletype was that I lived in Chicago, and would periodically drive past the old Teletype building on Southport Ave, and wonder what that really was!?
I've been a typewriter collector for several years now, and have always been interested in "mechanical things" which I can repair and restore.
So two summers ago I walked into my local antiquey junk store, and sitting there was a big black boxy thing with a typewriter keyboard...... It turned out to be a Teletype Signal Corp/U S Army Printer TG - 7 - B, ie: a Model 15 KSR unit. I bought it even though I knew nothing about it.
I googled, and You Tubed, everything I could get my hands on...including joining this group, and listening alot!!
In December of '14, you turned me onto a Model 19 on Ebay that was close to where my job as an "over the road" floral delivery truck driver took me in Chicago. And then there were two, but no real knowledge.
Eventually, one of your "close by" members, helped me get the 19 keyboard unit running for a 2015 International Typewriter Day exhibit that I did at the library where I work in  southwest Wisconsin.
So, still learning, and loving the great stories, and knowledge that you so generously share! 
If any one is interested, I'd love to help co- write a book, that shares this knowledge, and history!
The typewriter typosphere now has it's new book out called: The Typewriter Revolution,  A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century,  by Richard Polt.  - available at Amazon, and local bookstores.
Who ever asked the question about age...... Thanks, Don Lampert

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> On Dec 28, 2015, at 11:06, Mark Hall <ke5lib001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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"?
> 
> I'll go first. I'm 56, grew up around model 15's and forgot them completely 
> when I was in high school. I rediscovered all this when I turned 54. So I am
> slowly returning to childhood!
> 
> I'm probably the youngest Greenkeyer. That being said, if it is indeed so, 
> would make me the "cub", and the go-fer for the rest of you guys. What 
> better place to be, than lowliest of all, and student of all... I may not have 
> come from your era, but I can continue the madness!
> 
> OK. Any others? It can't be any more embarrassing. I waded in first!
> 
> 73!
> 
> Mark
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