[GreenKeys] Do you know this person?

[Chuck Robertson]

Steve, an expert behind a screwdriver sounds great to me. The further along
a machine is toward tuned, probably the better chance I have of success
(and staying on this list!).

Also thanks to James and everyone else who's offered assistance. No reply
yet from the Craigslist ad for the UPI RO in Metuchen, NJ.

Before, I mentioned my impetus is that I have a kind of writing partnership
with another writer in Seattle. (I work for a TV network, but he's an
actual professional writer, for places like Disney and Pixar.) We work on
episodic scripts together either in cloud apps or sending them back and
forth by email (so far unsuccessfully, but in scriptworld things can change
quickly). This has been complicated recently because he's discovered his
grandfather's typewriter, loves it, and believes its more cumbersome nature
slows him down, to his work's benefit. He believes the moments of extra
time he spends waiting or pressing keys, he also spends thinking, and it's
actually improved his writing. (It might be true.) He's been encouraging me
to try this, but I'm not ready to give up screens and software, and when I
told him instead of getting a typewriter, I was going to try to set up a
teletype to type out my scripts, he was like, what's a teletype?

Originally I thought I'd output from the Mac laptop to the teletype and
mail him the pages or roll. But then I thought, what if we each had a
teletype, and I transmitted the script over the net to it instead? I could
call him and tell him to turn the machine on, and it'd type the script out
at his house instead. He could watch it come through a character at a time
if he liked. And when he finished one, vice versa.

Chuck Robertson
Newton, Mass.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 6:07 PM steve bennett <raleigh_ranger at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Chuck,
>
>   I am holding on to your contact information because I have an Associated
> Press M15 RO
> I might let go after I get it working.
> I have since acquired a M19 so I do not need both.
> I will keep you in mind. I paid $50 for it and bought parts. I would
> rather sell it as a working unit
> rather than a basket case. Stay tuned.
>
> -Steve AD8CI
>
> On Wednesday, August 4, 2021, 12:37:56 PM EDT, Chuck Robertson <
> hootsk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello GreenKeys,
>
> Is the person who posted this UPI machine on Craigslist on this list? Or
> does anyone on this list know this person?
>
>
> https://cnj.craigslist.org/zip/d/metuchen-vintage-upi-teletype-machine/7349823306.html
>
> I've sent a couple of emails, but so far, crickets. If you're them, please
> call me, or if you do, please let me know or just give them my number. I
> haven't found a teletype yet and I'm really champing at the bit to get
> started.
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck Robertson
> Newton, Mass.
> (206) 579-0321
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