[GreenKeys] Model 15 serial numbers

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Don!   Yes! 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 1/11/2016 12:49:27 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
artsoul9 at yahoo.com writes:

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_ (http://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_ (mailto: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_ (mailto:nagle at animats.com)  writes:

>  Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 11:00:40 -0500
> From: Henry Eck<_wn3alx at gmail.com_ (mailto:wn3alx at gmail.com) >
>  To:greenkeys at _mailman.qth.net_ (http://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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