[GreenKeys] Another 2B follows me home

Pete Lancashire pete at petelancashire.com
Tue Feb 21 23:02:07 EST 2017


Does anyone have a picture of what the ID tags looked like on the
front of the table ?

-pete

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Pete Lancashire
<pete at petelancashire.com> wrote:
> 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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