[GreenKeys] When hobbies cross over...

[Jeff G]

Figured you guys and gals would enjoy this - this is an excerpt of an email
from a long-time vendor in my car hobby who often tells stories in his
emails, and I thought it was ironic that one hobby would mention another:

"In the 1960s and 1970s my Dad did a lot of marketing for major insurance
companies. Most people would call this “junk mail.” I would agree with that
assumption. At one time, my Dad had 3 automatic typewriters that would
auto-type full-page letters for mailings. They looked like they were
personally typed letters to individuals. These typewriters worked similar
to a player piano working off a roll with holes it. One person could run 3
machines at once. He also had a machine (not sure what it was called) that
using a fountain pen and could duplicate a hand-signed signature of a
person. This was pretty advanced stuff for the 1970s. I worked with this
equipment as well as ran inserting machines back in the day."

While I'm sure there were a bunch non-teletype typewriters that fed on
paper tape, you never know.

Jeff aka "Bags"
KC3GJX
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