[GreenKeys] Backup system for TTY

[Darryl Ledden]

Hello all the addressable pneumatic tube systems are used all around today. Banks use them in the drive-in tellers Hospitals use them to move Drugs from the pharmacy, large maintenance and manufacturing use them to move small tools and parts. Darryl WA5TOO

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  On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 9:16 PM, Paul Heller<paul0926 at comcast.net> wrote:   That was a fun video to watch. I knew about the NYC system, but not the details. Like you, Jim, I remember as a kid being in a store that used the pneumatic tubes. I don’t recall which one.  It was in North Western NJ where I grew up.

Paul
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> On Jan 2, 2022, at 8:06 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Western Union made extensive use of both pneumatic tubes and conveyor
> belts.  They got quite a number of patents in both fields.  Some of
> the developments are covered in Western Union Technical Review.
> 
> When I was in the  AF there was a pneumatic tube connecting the communications building with the adjutant's office in the headquarters
> building.  If a classified message was being sent through the tube in
> either direction we were told to be in telephone contact with someone
> at the other end of the tube until the message came through.
> 
> In my childhood in the small town J.C. Penney store there was a
> hand-powered conveyor running between the sales floor and the cashiers
> who were located on a balcony above the show windows.  The sales person
> would put your money and a receipt into the basket and pull a handle
> which would whiz the basket up to the cash handlers, who would make
> change and send it back to the sales floor with the receipt.  I never
> learned the reason for this - was it to keep the sales people from
> handling cash or was it to keep the cash in a place where robbers
> would have a hard time getting to it?
> 
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