[GreenKeys] Can anyone identify this machine

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Tue Feb 20 04:16:48 EST 2018


> From: "Alf Fisher"<alffisher2 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [GreenKeys] Can anyone identify this machine
> 
> Please can anyone identify this machine.
> 
> 73, Alf, G3WSD
> URL:<http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/attachments/20180219/5f2a44d7/attachment-0001.jpg>

That's an unusual machine. It's basically a Teletype Model 14 tape 
printer.  I have several of those.  But for some reason, it was built
as a modified machine to print on the tape usually used in 
reperforators.  It's not a reperforator; there's no punch
mechanism.  Nor is it a reperforator from which the punch has
been removed.  The tape feed mechanism and shift system are
like a Model 14 (the tape position shifts), and the tape
guides are similar to, but wider, than those for the standard
5/16" or 3/8" tape.

Notice the two spacebars.  That's very unusual.

It looks repairable.  Worth repairing as an exotic
variant. What typebars does it have? Punctuation?
Fractions?  Weather symbols?

				John Nagle


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