[GreenKeys] Demise of Teletype Corp.

Wed Jul 31 17:39:31 EDT 2019

Jim,

I also have a rapid scanner and would be happy to help scan any documents like this, though it sounds like Nick has it covered. I would be interested to see them even though they may have little useful value like you said.

I got your scrapbook CDs last year and am still planning to make the archive available at https://teletype.net ffor easier distribution. Just haven't gotten around to it yet. I keep biting off more than I can chew with various projects. Reminds me of my kids when they eat anything. I practically have to do the heimlich on them regularly.

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Jordan Spencer Cunningham
teletype.net

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019, at 3:33 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> 
> 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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