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

[Barnett, Andy]

I choked on my coffee reading that motto :-)

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> From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:greenkeys-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jack
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 08:24
> To: 'Jim Haynes'
> Cc: 'Greenkeys'
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Fwd: Fwd: Looking to purchase a teleprinter
>
> The NY Fire Department resorted to using old-fashioned multi-copy
> pressure-sensitive TTY roll paper in their EXTEL's so the could read the second
> sheet. The other problem their machines had was that almost all of the dot
> matrix pins were long gone.
>
> But, FDNY was never bothered by practicality or logic. Their motto is "One
> hundred years of tradition, unhampered by progress."
>
> Jack K2TTY
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2018 10:10 PM
> To: Jack <wa2hwj at att.net>
> Cc: 'Paul Heller' <paul0926 at comcast.net>; 'Greenkeys'
> <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Fwd: Fwd: Looking to purchase a teleprinter
>
> And one problem with any extant Extel machines is that some of them don't
> use ribbons, but were intended for use with a special paper stock that had
> the ink built into it.  Made originally by 3M.  As was explained to me, the
> paper was coated with microscopic white eggs, each egg having black ink
> inside.  So when struck by a print wire the eggs broke and produced a black
> mark.  So far as I know the paper is no longer available anywhere.
>
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