[GreenKeys] Teletype Corp. Museum tour

[Duncan Brown]

On 1/23/2026 7:24 PM, steve shumaker wrote:
> Any idea what happened to the artifacts put into storage?
>
> Steve
>
Steve,

That is another interesting story in itself.

"AT&T realized that the collection, with some 700 pieces, had important 
historical value and should not be simply discarded."

Ran Slayton and others at the Teletype Cop. had established a database 
of about 500 of the Museum's significant items and used it to produce a 
catalog of the Museum's collection.  It consisted of a short description 
and a Polaroid photograph. Some items include dates, customers and 
quantity produced.  The catalog consisted of 12 books of 11x17" pages 
and were distributed to major museums around the country, to see if they 
were interested in any of the items.

The AWA Museum received some items, including a Kleinschmidt Electric 
tape printer from 1920, the prototype of the Model 17, which was 
compatible with the German Hellscriber and a rotor-type TTY encryption 
unit from about 1950.

The Antique Wireless Museum still has its copies. The pages have been 
scanned, but the pages are all xerographic copies and the photographs 
did not all copy well and cannot be improved on.  I was initially 
planning on having them put up on a web site, but the picture quality on 
many of the pictures was so poor that I gave up on the project.

If there is interest, maybe Nick will put them up.

A newspaper article on the closing of the Teletype corp. Museum is 
enclosed.  Note: the photo  in the article is labeled as "Model 12 KSR", 
but is actually the GPE, "Iron Horse" perforator.

Have fun.

Duncan
K2OEQ

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