[GreenKeys] Take our Teletypes!

[drlegendre .]

@Sara & All

If you're unable to find 'good homes' for the donor machines, then I see
absolutely +no problem+ with selling them in any way you can, with the
following provisions: 1) Selling price must be high enough to make a scrap
sale unprofitable (check the local prices for mixed-metals). 2) Proceeds go
to further the goals of the museum, etc. These satisfied, there is no good
reason not to put them on eBay, craigslist, etc.

No one is going to purchase & ship these just for the pleasure of putting
them in a dump.

@ All

I've got my eye on that perforator.. I doubt I'll end up with it (shipping
is prohibitive, I'd think - even if she's willing), but it sure looks like
fun to bring it back to life!

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I'd just like to put in a good word for the Seattle museum and for
> Sarah Autumn.  The museum is fabulous, has working exhibits of the
> Step by Step, Panel, #1 crossbar and #5 crossbar switches, all in
> two floors of a telephone company building, and the telephone company
> supplies 48VDC to run their stuff.  Heaven help us if the telephone
> company ever decides to evict them!  I was pleased to see that most
> of the people working there are young to middle aged, so their knowledge
> of this technology will not soon die with them.  Sarah is more or less
> the curator of the Teletype section of the museum, and is doing a nice
> job of getting things showable and working.  Every museum (short of
> what somebody has privately in a barn) has to limit what it takes in
> to things that are in line with its objectives and its available space.
>
> Yes, if we're going to donate our stuff, we'd like to see it go where
> it will be appreciated.  I think places like the Seattle museum and
> the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA are better destinations
> than corporate-sponsored museums.  I remember the company that bought the
> Western Union name was going to have a museum, but as soon as the man
> behind it retired the whole concept went away.  And seems like Western
> Electric-Lucent was going to start a museum at one time and maybe
> collected some artifacts before the corporate honchos decided they
> were not going to support it.  The Teletype Corp. museum almost went
> to the dump, but a couple of managers got permission to try to find
> homes for the artifacts and were able to distribute them among a large
> number of museums.
>
> And then it's a fact that the kind of heavy metal we collect is
> extremely expensive to ship.
>
>
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