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I am in my 60s  and  run the SMECC museum - SMECC  was  started  back in 
the 80's.
 
Always   remember seeing teletypes   growing up   and in  our AFCS squadron 
 we had  teletype repairmen that  maintained the  weather teletypes on bas 
and at SAGE 26 AD across the  street  from Luke AFB  - so it was interesting 
 to see them work  on  the units.
Also would  visit  March AFB to see people I  had talked to  over the  
radio they showed me all the teletype stuff they were  using.

In the 70s a friends fixed me up with a model 14 typing reperf  with 
celluloid  top keys ( I want one back like it!)  Bought a  used  tube  TU  from a 
ham store and would print stuff on tape. I  got a 28 ksr  so I could print 
the  teletype art.
 
I met  Ray Morrison ( of Illinois Bell Teletype Fame..)when he was  getting 
 ready to move to live with his daughter and  he was only  allowed to take 
3 teletypes  with him...  the baudot stuff went to the  Deaf and Hard of 
Hearing  and he  gave me lots of ASCII units  that  were part of the start of 
my computer company. One of the nicest  people I have ever met. His 
collection of  Byte and Killobaud  Microcomputing  magazines was the  start of the  
the computer  history   library.  I also learned a lot about teletypes   from 
him too.  ...... ok...so crank  the clock ahead   some  to recent  times!
 
We have teletypes in  journalism displays  and also sitting  near  radios, 
ASCII Teletypes  for our computers  but the   part that interests me the 
most is the  history of the Deaf and Hard of  Hearing  re-purposing   Bell and 
Western Union  teletypes to form  a communications network around the united 
states   for all of the  Deaf and Hard of Hearing folks to use.
 
Our first group of  Deaf material that really kicked off   that  part of 
the collection  came  from a deaf fellow that  posted here in  green keys a 
number of  years  back. This  happened  exactly at the time I had been 
studying about it!  (  Yea  I believe in  events lining up on a timeline!)  There   
were 15s a 19 many 28s  but also an amazing timeline  of  the  electronic 5 
level machines  that followed on. 
 
It was like  the majority of  the timeline of history  all  in one  shot.  
There were also  many nice  books  and amazing collection of  parts. We 
added more  to it and  continue to do so.  In addition  we  collect anything  
related  to Deaf and Hard of Hearing technology  culture and  history.
 
If you have any that filtered into your collection let us know! we are  
interested!
 
We also  like model 31 teletypes and are looking  for more   especially the 
military one that has the  round connector in the back and  the red pilot 
lights on the  front and the 25z5  tube in it!
 
Anyway there is more history mixed in with all of this and  lots of  
stories and adventures but there is a little bit
 
 
Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC   see some of the history  here!   
_www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org) 
 




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