[GreenKeys] Western Union Comment

[Peter Gottlieb]

Stupid thing to steal, but leaving a trail to his house?  SMH

I guess it was the 70's when we were playing with them.  I asked the guys at the 
local Bell System CO (it was on my way walking to school) why I couldn't use 
those machines long distance and they explained about the 2600 Hz tone which 
will hang up the line (the interrupter disk was about 2550 Hz IIRC).

Not much use without the Teledeltos paper, and the machines sent a negative 
image which was converted at the WU CO.  If I had some paper I'd like to play 
with a set someday when I have time.

Peter
KB2VTL


On 4/24/2019 11:02 PM, JC White wrote:
> Per previous comment, I have at least two of those Deskfax machines... I think 
> both are unmodified due to my giving up the idea of fax over ham radio... and 
> of course they are not particularly suitable for WEFAX... a burglar took off 
> with 5 cases of the special fax paper (image burned by stylus) leaving a trail 
> all the way to his residence... Were those machines popular in the 60s?
>
> John
> WB6BLV
>
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