[GreenKeys] Model 15 serial numbers

[Donald Lampert]

I would work on a serial number data base with someone. You need to start somewhere, then it grows and grows!
Look at the typewriterdatabase.com. It's huge now, but started simply, and updated and grew, as more information became known.
Don L

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> On Jan 11, 2016, at 12:43, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> But  what   I  stated...
> and  stated  from the beginning  before being routinely dismissed years back...
> was  to  start gathering sales  records  to start the database.  Records  containing  sales of new units  would be the closest to the  true issue  date.
>  
> If  you  tried to build a database off  stuff that had  been out in service commercially  for  years, or  ham used  ttys or  deaf used  ttys the  results  would indeed be dreadful!  Some of  my elderly Deaf and Hard of Hearing  friends  told me of getting  lots of  units and  units that were in pieces and  just  'making them  work'
>  
> Ed Sharpe archivist  for SMECC 
>  
> In a message dated 1/11/2016 8:38:57 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, nagle at animats.com writes:
> > Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 11:00:40 -0500
> > From: Henry Eck<wn3alx at gmail.com>
> > To:greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> > Subject: [GreenKeys] Model 15 serial numbers
> >
> > I have a model 15 RO (all but the outer case) with a plate on the left
> > side of the page printer assembly which says "Property of The
> > Associated Press", and a serial number plate on the lower right, #
> > 97503.
> >
> > I wondered if there was any information to be had from the serial
> > number, for instance the date/place of manufacture, etc. (?)
> 
>      Serial numbers on Model 15 machines seem not to be too useful.
> The motor, keyboard, typing unit, and base are all easily 
> interchangeable, and the big users (WU, AT&T, news services,
> the military) often swapped those subunits in the field.
> A used machine probably doesn't have its original subunits.
> Many machines also have a property number, but that's not
> manufacturing info.
> 
>      There are some variations which indicate age.  Wooden
> rollers on the platen and a wooden paper spool hub indicate
> older machines.
> 
>                 John Nagle
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