[GreenKeys] Table top M35 KSR...

Wed Jul 22 22:05:55 EDT 2015

Cory -  That  computer business  was  an adventure  indeed... actually 
anything for the most  part I ever  did    had a fun  component  to it 
otherwise... why  do it?

ehhh!    we  are stretching my  brain... for   some  reason I remember  
feet  or  screw in  metal  things  with a metal  pad on bottom but    brain is  
not  sure....  but  I also seem to  remember   part of  foot  being missing 
 and  what  was  left there tearing    the vans  shag carpet   some...

In a message dated 7/22/2015 5:36:03 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
coryheisterkamp at gmail.com writes:

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_ 
(http://www.smecc.org/)   

In a message dated 7/22/2015 4:10:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, 
_62.5milliamps at gmail.com_ (mailto: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_ (mailto:john at johnwhitney.com) 
801 815  9265
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