[GreenKeys] Western Union Comment

[Peter Gottlieb]

Yes but that was their charm. Kind of a Flintstones fax printer. 

We had them working, it wasn’t hard, but we had to manually synchronize them. WU gave us the schematics which made it easy to figure out. We even got spares like the hardened wire burning styluses. 


Peter

> On Apr 24, 2019, at 11:15 PM, Jim Cooper <jim.w2jc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 25 Apr 2019 at 3:02, JC White wrote:
>> 
>> Were those machines popular in the 60s?
> 
> As I recall a few hams tried to use them 
> with tones over VHF without a lot of success ... 
> plus they were actually rather messy and 
> smelly -- the basic function was 'blasting away' 
> the Teledeltos paper (lots of paper dust) with 
> an electrical spark (lots of ozone in the air). 
> 
> 
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