[GreenKeys] Fwd: Fwd: Looking to purchase a teleprinter

Thu Aug 23 18:40:25 EDT 2018

EXTEL’s replaced a lot of 15’s in the press services in the US. That printout is definitely

from an EXTEL. I also saw EXTEL’s used by the New York City Fire Department

as alarm printers and even a special project managed by New York Telephone. The NYT project

did not sell, so there were EXTEL’s all over the place for the taking. I had a brand new one

that a Bell engineer gave me. I figured out how to interface it and copied a lot of

RTTY with it. Then one day, it just died! After some poking around I got it going again

and leased it to a movie production company for “Charlie Wilson’s War”. When they were

done with it, I told them they could keep it.

Jack K2TTY

From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net <greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Paul Heller
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 6:29 PM
To: Greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [GreenKeys] Fwd: Fwd: Looking to purchase a teleprinter

Hello Greenkeyers,

Below is the response I got from Kacey. It’s an interesting read! Be sure to notice the PDF with the letter to president Nixon.

You will notice that this is a dot matrix printer. Did AP lease any dot-matrix machines in the US? Any idea what model it could be? It’s certainly not a 15 as the former staff member thinks. We could put a 15 or 28 in there as it would likely be period correct, but they probably want the correct machine that he had.

Henning thought it could be a Extel / Transtel machine. Not sure if those were available in the states or not.

Anyone live near Rancho Mirage?

Paul
W2TTY

Begin forwarded message:

From: Kacey Donner <kdonner at sunnylands.org <mailto:kdonner at sunnylands.org> >
Date: August 23, 2018 at 2:35:36 AM GMT+2
To: Paul Heller <paul0926 at comcast.net <mailto:paul0926 at comcast.net> >
Cc: Henning Treumann <df3oe.henning at googlemail.com <mailto:df3oe.henning at googlemail.com> >
Subject: RE: [GreenKeys] Fwd: Looking to purchase a teleprinter

Greetings Paul,

I am so lucky to find support from the Greenkeys community. Thank you for your response and for your offer to help! I would like to give you a brief introduction about this project. I work in a small archive with a few staff members who take care of historic furniture, appliances, documents, photos, etc. to stage in a house for a historic house tour. The house is called Sunnylands. It’s the former estate of the owner of TV Guide, Walter Annenberg. Walter Annenberg was a billionaire when he died, and he left his money to a charitable organization called the Annenberg Foundation which gives money largely to the arts and to education. I work for a related organization and department, the Sunnylands Archive, it’s just much smaller. Our job is to provide public access to the Annenberg home. So we manage and stage the historic items. We would be happy to have you come by sometime!

To answer your questions:

1.	I am located in Rancho Mirage, California (near Palm Springs). 
2.	We would like to have that option. Does it require a specialized wall outlet to plug into? We would be willing to have either though—whatever we can get.
3.	We would prefer to get a machine that is either in good condition or that can be brought back to good condition by paying someone to fix it up. We would take a good-looking non-functioning machine over one that functions but got banged up. We are staging the machine in a historic house tour and the owner was a wealthy man and so we imagine that he probably had a pretty nice looking machine. Our budget will also likely determine what we are able to purchase.
4.	I have included a description from a former staff member of the estate who regularly used the printer. It sounds like it could have been a model 15 or model 28 without the typing portion and without a stand, but your guess would be better than mine. Something that might be helpful are the print outs of the AP releases that were printed from the machine because the typed characters might give a clue about which machine it was. I have attached a few samples, one is an actual print and the other 3 are copies.

Description from former staff-member:  It was an official Associated Press (AP) machine linked directly to the AP wire. This was all he knew as a former newspaper owner (Philadelphia Inquirer).    WHA read it many times during the day....it was his link to the world....as cell phones & computers are for people nowadays.  The machine was leased from AP.  Don't know whether they exist anymore or whether you can get one from EBay.  It was a printer type machine that sat on one of the shelves in the closet.  It did NOT have a keyboard and it did not have its own stand and it did NOT have large letters on the front that read “Associated Press” thought that’s how the ambassador referred to it. The first or second image would be closest. (images attached) 

Thank you for your thoughts I am pleasantly surprised and delighted for your help.

Respectfully,

Kacey

Kacey Donner | Collections Assistant

Sunnylands Center & Gardens

The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands

760-202-2243 | 760-219-7843

kdonner at sunnylands.org <mailto:kdonner at sunnylands.org>  | sunnylands.org <http://sunnylands.org> 

From: Paul Heller [mailto:paul0926 at comcast.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2018 3:54 AM
To: Kacey Donner
Cc: Henning Treumann
Subject: Fwd: [GreenKeys] Fwd: Looking to purchase a teleprinter

Hi Kacey,

Henning forwarded your email on to a group called Greenkeys with many members, so you might get more than once response. 

Machines can be found, sometimes for purchase and sometimes for free. In order to help, I have some questions:

1. Where are you located?

2. Do you want a running machine? (Museums often want this, and we can set things up so you can show the machine in action)

3. What condition do you need?

4. What model? There are quite a few. In the US, teletype was the most common manufacturer but there were others. For the news wire services, the most common were the Teletype Model 15 and Model 28 without keyboards (receive only). For military and business, both models again but with keyboards. For TELEX service it was Teletype models 32. For TWX it was Teletype models 33 and 35.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Paul
W2TTY

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From: Henning Treumann via GreenKeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net <mailto:greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> >
Date: August 21, 2018 at 9:44:52 AM GMT+2
To: GreenKeys <GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net <mailto:GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net> >
Subject: [GreenKeys] Fwd: Looking to purchase a teleprinter
Reply-To: Henning Treumann <df3oe.henning at googlemail.com <mailto:df3oe.henning at googlemail.com> >

Got this mail through my website.

Since the sender is U.S. based I cannot help him unfortuantely.

Maybe someone of the list can give some help.

Henning DF3OE / Blumenhagen Germany

i-Telex: 925302 and 92612

www.teleprinter.net <http://www.teleprinter.net> 

www.i-telex.net <http://www.i-telex.net> 

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From: Kacey Donner <kdonner at sunnylands.org <mailto:kdonner at sunnylands.org> >
Date: Di., 21. Aug. 2018 um 02:37 Uhr
Subject: Looking to purchase a teleprinter
To: df3oe.henning at gmail.com <mailto:df3oe.henning at gmail.com>  <df3oe.henning at gmail.com <mailto:df3oe.henning at gmail.com> >

Greetings,

I am looking to buy a teleprinter to stage in a historic house. Could you please send me a recommendation of where to purchase one?

Thank you for your time!

Respectfully,

Kacey

Kacey Donner | Collections Assistant

Sunnylands Center & Gardens

The Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands

760-202-2243 | 760-219-7843

kdonner at sunnylands.org <mailto:kdonner at sunnylands.org>  | sunnylands.org <http://sunnylands.org> 

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