[GreenKeys] Model 40, Anyone?
Paul Kasley
w9ts at comcast.net
Fri Jun 12 23:01:38 EDT 2020
Took me a while but here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whKVGefscro
On 7/26/2019 15:21, Nick England wrote:
> Yay! There is one still alive!
> Yes please please make a youtube video.
> Many of us latecomers to the TTY party have never seen one in operation.
> Also any up close photos of the print chain would be great!
> Cheers,
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com <http://www.navy-radio.com>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 3:54 PM Paul Kasley <w9ts at comcast.net
> <mailto:w9ts at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
> I have a working M40 printer and a spare NOS chain. I should
> someday make a movie for Utoob.
>
> However, the flyback in my CRT is arcing internally and I'm in
> need of the 410854 HV board. Any leads on the board alone or the
> entire 40MN101 at a ***reasonable*** price appreciated.
>
> -Paul Kasley, ex-E36736
>
> On 7/26/2019 14:33, Nick England wrote:
>> I would very sincerely like to find and preserve one or two
>> printers complete with crumbled chain and pile of type pallets. I
>> believe 3D printing might be able to fabricate chains some time
>> in the future, but if all the printers are in the dump, there’s
>> no hope at all, ever. End of story.
>>
>> I’ve got a M40 controller and a couple of mag tape units waiting
>> for a CRT terminal and printers.
>>
>> You may think I’m crazy and you might be right - heck I’m the guy
>> with an Inktronic waiting its turn on my workbench.
>> Cheers
>> Nick
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:13 PM Nick England
>> <navy.radio at gmail.com <mailto:navy.radio at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I have been told that even the NOS print chains have crumbled
>> to dust so the chances of a working printer are zero. I think
>> Paul Cembura still uses his M40 CRT terminal regularly.
>>
>> I’d like find some M40 gear to play with since the US Navy
>> used it aboard some ships. Here is the message center aboard
>> the battleship USS Wisconsin.
>> http://www.navy-radio.com/tty-m40.htm
>>
>> Cheers
>> Nick
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 12:58 PM Jordan Spencer Cunningham
>> <js at teletype.net <mailto:js at teletype.net>> wrote:
>>
>> Just curious if anyone has a working Model 40. Just total
>> assumptions here, but I'm going to go out on a limb and
>> guess that the CRT monitors in those things probably
>> haven't aged well, nor the chains (belts?) in the
>> printers. I guess if they're actually chains, maybe
>> they've survived better.
>>
>> I recall there were some available from the museum in
>> Washington a couple years back-- that was the first I
>> ever heard anything about them.
>>
>> Also, anyone know how well sales were for these things?
>> They came around at a time when the industry was having
>> very extreme changes. I have no real insight into how
>> things were for Teletype at the time except that I know
>> they shut down operations by 1990, but I envision them
>> struggling to stay relevant in a world that was becoming
>> increasingly computerized, digital, and microsized. The
>> Model 40 suite seems like it was an attempt to stay
>> relevant but probably didn't didn't do too well. What do
>> I know? I'm just trying to read between the lines.
>>
>> -
>> Jordan Spencer Cunningham
>> teletype.net <https://teletype.net>
>>
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