[GreenKeys] Wood tables

[Bruce Gentry]

What are the chances of furniture companies making "unofficial" tables 
and stands for Teletype equipment to better blend in with office decor? 
I am actually surprised Ma Bell did not provide and require the use of 
their stands and tables for the telephones they provided. When older 
phones had external ringer and network boxes, did they offer wood grain 
finishes (for a nominal fee, of course!), or object when customers 
painted the boxes to match their decor schemes? Well into the 1970s, 
telephones in any color other than black incurred a monthly fee that 
continued as long as you had the phone.

    Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY



On 5/24/20 4:30 PM, Ken Kinderman wrote:
> In 1963 I was messing with a Model 15. One day I drove past a store 
> selling used office furniture.. spilling out of the store onto the 
> sidewalk. I instantly recognized a wood table with a distinctive felt 
> top and those unique hole cutouts. It was a beautiful solid walnut, 
> with no nameplate on the front. My guess is that when some head 
> honcho CEO wanted a machine in his office, he (and it was always a he) 
> needed something special... no clunky metal tables. Only the best 
> would do.
>
> I bought it cheap because who needed a table with holes in the top?
>
> Alas, gone forever.
>
> Ken
> W2EWL
>
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 2:52 PM kn7sfz <kn7sfz at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kn7sfz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     My first M15 was while I was in college in 1971 and on a wood
>     table with
>     casters...quite decorative, actually.....legs were carved. Wish I
>     had a
>     picture.
>
>     Richard kn7sfz
>
>     On 5/24/2020 11:06 AM, w9ddd at tapr.org <mailto:w9ddd at tapr.org> wrote:
>     > Every once in a while I see a reference to a wood table.  Like
>     for instance a listing for a 28 ASR on c-list.  I sort chalked
>     that up to being a Frankenstein.  But I see some references to a
>     wood 15 table and now a 19 on this list.  What would be the
>     motivation for a wood table.  Shortage of iron during a war or?
>     >
>     > I can't find documentation in the usual places.  There's the
>     case of TG-7 (?), where the shipping crate becomes the table.  But
>     that's all I find.
>     >
>     > John, W9DDD
>     >
>     >
>
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