[GreenKeys] how did the ap and upi teletypes motor on and off? i do not see extra stuff

[Eric]

On 04/05/2016 9:18 pm, Sheldon Daitch wrote: 

> Ed, 
> 
> to the best of my knowledge, AP M-15/20 machines in North Carolina and Georgia ran the motors 24/7.
> 
> I think to have any kind of motor controller was simply another failure point and the machines were pretty much plain jane.
> 
> Thinking about this, there really wasn't that much downtime on the usual wire circuits. Maybe 5% of the time, the machines were in idle status? 
> 
> At VOA, we did have motor controllers on the M-28s,but those machines were idle probably 18 hours per day. 
> 
> 73 
> 
> Sheldon

A machine that was busy that much of the time must have gone through
tremendous amounts of paper. Was there that much news getting sent out
on the wire? Were there giant rolls of paper or did they just get
changed frequently? And did it just pile up on the floor during off
hours? 

eric 

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