[GreenKeys] WU Model 100 (was Movie discussion...)

[Duncan Brown]

Pete,

I thought  that I had included an embedded picture, but it apparently 
didn't come through.  Here are a couple as attachments.

Duncan
K2OEQ

On 25-Jul-17 10:20, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> Does anyone have pictures ? I meet with a group that consists of Hams 
> and Ex Tektronix pepole and two of them remember having 105's. Seems a 
> bunch of them were made available to Hams in the Portland OR area.
>
> The memory is those that stayed with RTTY as hams eventually 
> "upgraded" and dumped the 105's.
>
> -pete
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 7:15 AM, Duncan Brown 
> <duncanancy at earthlink.net <mailto:duncanancy at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>     We have a WU Model 103  at the AWA Museum.  But since it arrived
>     without a power cord and there doesn't seem to be much
>     documentation on it, I haven't done anything with it. (besides
>     having other things to do)
>
>
>
>     In order to cut costs, WU designed their own teleprinter and had
>     it manufactured by a typewriter company. It cost about half what a
>     Teletype Corp. Model 15 did, but they were not as rugged as the
>     M15. About 6500 units of the Model 100-105 family were produced
>     between about 1935-1945.
>
>     Have fun,
>
>     Duncan
>     K2OEQ
>
>
>



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