[GreenKeys] Slash Zero on 32 and 33's

Chris Elmquist chrise at pobox.com
Wed May 20 22:01:35 EDT 2015


On Wednesday (05/20/2015 at 02:40PM -0500), Don Robert House K9TTY wrote:
> Back in the day I would call the customer to make sure we were changing the correct type wheel and key top.
> 
> In 1966-70 most of the changes we made were for the "Computer O" where the slash went through the LETTER "O"
> About 15 percent were the "Military Zero"  
> 
> Of course after Western Union took over the dial TWX most of the "Dataphone Teletypes" were for official Bell use and anything and everything was custom.
> Also had M33s in use for junk yards and radio stations that were of this type over the regular dial network or the multipoint "hoot and holler" services.
> Most of them used the standard as manufactured keyboards and type wheels.
> 
> Don
> Teletype & Data Installation and Maintenance 1966-1973
> Illinois Bell Telephone Company

I have an Anderson-Jacobson branded M33 (with internal acoustic coupler,
of course made by AJ) that has slashed-Oh rather than slashed-zero
typewheel.  Some provenance of the unit suggests it did time at IBM so
there's consistency there.

-- 
Chris Elmquist NØJCF


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