[GreenKeys] Take our Teletypes!

[David Tumey]

Sarah,
I hesitate to weigh in on this...
First, I appreciate very much your effort to make these wonderful machines available to anyone with enough interest to pick them up - you should be commended for that!  When I think of the effort involved in getting my hands on a '33 that I undertook back in January 2014, plus the years of work restoring several of these, what breaks my heart is when you use the word "dump".  "Dump" and/or "Landfill" is the last place any of these things should be - under any circumstance.
My suggestion is that selling them on eBay would be a far more acceptable outcome than driving them to a landfill.  Please don't do that.  Please sell them first.
--daveW5DT


On Monday, April 3, 2017, 9:07:32 AM EDT, Sarah Autumn <neverether at gmail.com> wrote:Gil,
Please bear in mind that we are a non-profit. There's not a single one of us who gets paid in any way for doing what we do. Also, the space we occupy (both our main museum space, and our storage areas) is entirely Centurylink owned and operated. They even pay our power and heating bills. They can kick us out at any time for any reason. In fact, they have just told us to shrink our footprint in the storage area, and stay out of their way.
That being said, I care deeply for Teletype equipment, and I have tried to orchestrate this in a way that allows collectors to reclaim as much equipment as possible. I do not want to see these machines go to the dump. I'm not selling these on eBay for that exact reason. I'd rather see them go to a good home than make a few bucks off of them on the open market (even if the museum could use the extra $$)
I personally own about 12 machines, and I live in a single room basement apartment with a small workshop. If I could take these home personally, I absolutely would, but at this point, I'd be storing them on my sofa and my bed, and I need a place to sleep ;-)
I'm going over the requests now, and I'll put together a spreadsheet of what I've got so far! Still haven't heard from George, but I'm gonna hold out a few more days and maybe give him a call. 
Thanks!Sarah
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Gil Smith <gil at baudot.net> wrote:

Just goes to show that we cannot ever donate machines to a museum.  How many times has this happened now?
We have our private little collections and pass them down later to folks who care.
gil

gil smith, AF7EZ
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [GreenKeys] Take our Teletypes!
From: Sarah Autumn <neverether at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, April 02, 2017 10:03 pm
To: Greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>

All,
We at the Museum of Communications in Seattle are clearing out some space in our storage area. I went there today, and took photos of *some* of the machines that are up for grabs. Even if we get rid of these, we will still have duplicates of mostly everything.
You can find them here: http://imgur.com/a/fzf4A
Guidelines:
1. If you want em, you gotta come pick them up in Seattle, or arrange for shipping.2. Many of these were donated by George Hutchison. George, if you're reading this, you get first dibs on all of your machines. Come on over with your van, and we'll go out for burgers!3. They're free, but if you could make a small donation to the museum, we're a non-profit and we'd really appreciate it!4. I can not vouch for the working condition of any of these machines. WYSIWYG :)5. We'll hang on to these for a month or 2. After that, they're all going to go to scrap. This makes me really sad, so I hope they all go to a good home!
With love and admiration,
Sarah AutumnPanel WitchMuseum of CommunicationsSeattle, WAUSAEarthMilky WayVirgo Supercluster

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