[GreenKeys] Was Model 40 - GE Terminet 300

[Sheldon Daitch]

 I don't remember how many Model 40 printers the Associated Press had in North Carolina, but it wasn'tvery many, as I recall from my time with the AP in 1978-79.

The AP bureau, when it was in the small building to the right of The News & Observer building, had oneM-40 printer in the back shop area, to monitor the high speed newspaper wire circuit.  

WRAL-TV might have had one M-40 printer, but I have a hazy memory about that, I am not sure if mymemory is correct.

Did any of the newspapers in the state have the M-40 printers?  Maybe, but I would think most of themhad direct computer input for text monitoring and perhaps page setting and maybe some had to usehigh speed tape punchers if their page typesetting equipment did not interface with the computers.

The high speed wire, again, going from memory, had so much capacity that it did not need a separateAM and PM cycle circuit like the slow speed M-20 circuits.  AM for the morning papers and PM for theafternoon papers.  

But there were headers on each article on the high speed wire which "steered" the content to the newspapers, depending on what the newspapers were subscribing to from the AP.  There wasa modem box of some kind, I think it was called a Datastream box and there was one chip inthe box that if a certain pin was lifted, the box passed all the traffic on the high speed circuit.  
73Sheldon


    On Saturday, June 13, 2020, 02:19:11 PM EDT, David I. Emery <die at dieconsulting.com> wrote:  
 
 

    Model 40s were used by the wire services in that era with their
1200 baud "high speed" data feed... so they supported the same character
set more or less the old model 20s did... (plus and minus some
variations in pallets on the print chain specific to specific
applications ordered for a particular printer).    They could do both
sprocket and regular  roll/fanfold paper (in the 80 character model),
the 132 character one was sprocket fed.

    Like the Terminets they had a capability for forms support...




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