[GreenKeys] Another 2B follows me home

Pete Lancashire pete at petelancashire.com
Sun Feb 19 17:22:02 EST 2017


Forgot .. it came with a table

http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=8024

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Glad you were able to rescue it.  The Morkrum-Kleinschmidt name plate
> dates it to roughly after 1925 when Morkrum and Kleinschmidt merged,
> and roughly before 1928 when they changed the company name to Teletype.
>
> The keytops are interesting, must have been changed at some time, since
> it has =LF on one key and CAR RET on another.  In earlier W.U. service
> it would have been only the = and the CR key would have had a big period.
> W.U. used a double period, really meaning a double CR, to mean end of
> message.  So this was a machine that might have been used to communicate
> with page printers.
>
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