[GreenKeys] Demise of Teletype Corp.

[Jim Haynes]

I've been meaning to respond to these messages.  Of course I was long
gone by the time it happened, so can't say much about it.  I know some,
perhaps many, of the R&D people transferred to Bell Labs Indian Hill
facility in Naperville.  I believe it still exists, but of course
any ex-Teletype people would be retired or dead by now.  Then we know
that the Little Rock plant continued in operation after Skokie was
bulldozed.  There are some web sites about Little Rock such as
https://ttylr.wordpress.com  Says there that Little Rock closed in 2006
after being Teletype/AT&T/Lucent/IBM/Avaya and Celestica.

I don't know what happened to all the drawings and things.  Might have
gone to AT&T Archives or Lucent Archives or might have just been thrown
out.  I've been told by an employee who was there to the end that there
was a flea market for leftover material objects - he has given me some
machine shop items and one of the pentagonal frames that were used in
building 28/35 printers.  He doesn't have email, so I can't put you in
touch with him directly.

I've been collecting paper documents as they come along.  The latest
acquisition is a stack of binders about 18" high containing specifications
for manufacturing processes and for designing stuff.  If you want to 
reboot the company from the ground up you need these; otherwise I don't
know that they are of any value.  I've been meaning to ask Nick England
if he wants to put these through his scanner.  I scan things by hand 
and it's too tedious to do with these documents

What I do with my collection is to scan the documents into computer files
and put them on CD ROMs that I distribute to whomever will take them.  I
figure the more copies in circulation the more likely they will be found
when somebody wants them.  Much of this is a CD set called Teletype 
Scrapbook because it is pretty much unorganized.  Another set is Teletype
News, the employee magazine (not complete) I did a set on Teletype 
manuals, but all of that material is on Nick's web site so I see no
need to distribute those.  Still another set is all the Teletype patents,
but now that you can download patents all you need is the index, and
that's on the scrapbook.

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