[GreenKeys] Model 40, Anyone?

Sat Jun 13 10:29:57 EDT 2020

Surprisingly fast!

From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net <greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Paul Kasley
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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
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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.

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Jordan Spencer Cunningham
teletype.net<https://teletype.net>

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