[GreenKeys] Western Union manuals for a 2-B aka 14

[Jim Pruitt]

I am sure I am coming into this thread blind. I looked at the archives but
don't see where this thread started so I will just throw my 2 cents in.

My first rtty setup consisted of a WU 2B tape printer.  I was in college.
My roomate (K7YZN) had a friend that got some of the 2B tape printers from
Western Union.  It cost me $100 but I could not find a model 15 and 28's
were not readily available cheap yet.  I got several boxes of the small
tape that the 2B used.  My roomate and I got in trouble one weekend as we
had too much time on our hands.  We stayed up and printed a hole bunch of
tapes with names and sayings on them and about 3am went around and stuck
them on each dorm room door.  For some reason,  no one had a clue where
they came from.  I had that 2B and ST6 on a Drake 4 line twins for a couple
years before I managed to pick up a 32KSR from  Van Zant (W2DLT I think)
for $200.  The 2B was definitely different.  I never understood why Western
Union used gummed tape rather than using page printers and printing
telegrams on that but am sure they had valid reasons.

Thank you.

Jim Pruitt
WA7DUY

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via
GreenKeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> I remember my  typing reperf tty  made chad and had  typing on the edge of
> the tape. so i have  WU one  hat was in this  group YEA... now I will need
> tape for that too  thought it looked wider than the    28 asr tape...
>
> In a message dated 7/13/2016 7:10:05 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
> jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:
>
> So far as I know the Teletype typing reperforators all use 11/16" standard
> perforator tape, use chadless punching, and that allows printing on the
> tape.  Western Union and Kleinschmidt had some of their own designs that
> used 7/8" tape and printed on the edge of the tape where there were no
> holes.  With Teletype the printing is 6 characters behind the punching,
> or is it 6 characters ahead of the punching?  anyway there is a mark on
> the tape reader gate showing where to read the tape when the holes are
> over the pins.
>
> Late Teletype stuff using printing between the feed holes sometimes.
>
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