[GreenKeys] Table top M35 KSR...

Wed Jul 22 20:35:30 EDT 2015

Ed, that's pretty wild! Now you've got me wondering...is there a way to tell a table-top 35 from one that would have had a stand? Would Teletype have installed feet or some other indicator for a 'desktop' unit?  -C

On Jul 22, 2015, at 7:31 PM, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys wrote:

> Some hospitals also  used tabletop KSR TTY 35s
>  
> From  some  rough  notes on Computer Exchange
>  
> I know,  as we  bought a van load   from  a hospital near  Burbank or Glendale Calif (need  to search my memory more!)   in the early days of our  computer biz.  Read on...
>  
>  I had been visiting Jim McGinnis at Vurdugo  Computers in 1980 and a call came  though  for  him  about teletypes the hospital wanted to get  rid of. I heard  Jim say Teletypes and my ears perked up  and  and  Jim leaned over and   asked "Ed You like teletypes right?"  I nodded and grinned and  he   wrote  down  some information and concluded the  call. Jim smiled,  handed me the paper.  I  chased  over to the hospital   and bought the entire  pile   for  $150  and totally filled that  big  Chevy  van. When teletype  have no stands  you can put  a lot of them in a van! First row was on their sides  nested together with blanket   between to keep them  from breaking the plastic filling length  of  van   the  planets on top  and   more ttys  sitting on to  of that.  HEAVY LOAD!   I pumped the air shocks up!
>  
> I  went  back to Jim's  and  thanked  him.   On my  return  he asked me  "if I had gotten them  for free"... "What?   no  I  paid the  $150"  I  said... he  chucked  and made  some remark about me  being "overly enthusiastic" - - Heck I was  happy to have them  for the  $150 !
>  
> Anyway  I  hauled them all back to Arizona  resold them as  personal computer  printers  and  terminals  for students to log into  school   timeshare systems.
>  
> Looking  back on it  this  cash generated by the sale of these units was  a  key  part of the starting of my 'empire!'
>  
> Jim and  I went  on to do other  deals on terminals , printers and  I  always  tried to send  him leads of  people looking  for DG computers.
>  
> OK - These are the only   tabletops I  ever  saw...  and  should one turn up in Phoenix area is  probably one that passed though my hands  and would love to have it  for the  SMECC Museum  collection.Ed#  www.smecc.org
>  
>  
> In a message dated 7/22/2015 4:10:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, 62.5milliamps at gmail.com writes:
> 
> 
> Many of these 35 KSR sets were used as terminals to communicate with the #1 ESS WECo electronic switch.
> I had one in my museum. By the time the #5 ESS came out the terminal used was the Model 40 KDP.
> 
> The Number 101 ESS… the first WECo electronic switch, had a Model 28 KSR
> with a modified keyboard and a modified type box.  It was very weird.
> 
> All except the #5 were coupled to the switches with a -130Vdc 62.5 milliamp loop.
> 
> The Bell System provided the USA with the finest telecommunications network in the world.
> I am pleased that I was part of it.  DRH
> 
>  
> 
> On 21 Jul 2015, at 3:15 PM, John Whitney wrote:
> 
>> Hello greenkey members.
>> 
>> I'm trying to restore a Desktop M35 KSR, and some of the vibration dampeners have turned to goo from contact with oil.  Here is a picture of a set that is in pretty good shape...
>> 
>>   http://www.vintagebytes.com/photos/2015/20150721-m35-dampeners.jpg
>> 
>> Does anyone have some of these parts?
>> 
>> The parts of these that have not had contact with oil, seem to be in very good shape, so New Old Stock could be good.  I need 4 sets.
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> -- 
>> John :-)
>> john at johnwhitney.com
>> 801 815 9265
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