[GreenKeys] Wheatstone Tape Perforator - Kleinschmidt, Creed, Teletype, Boehme
Jim Haynes
jhhaynes at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 23 21:13:23 EDT 2026
That's a likely supposition that Boehme took over the Morse perforator
production from Teletype. There's a time frame when Teletype was turning
out Model 28 machines as fast as possible to meet military needs, using
some rented factory space in Chicago. No doubt they were happy to
eliminate a product from the line that was so obsolescent. At that time
about the oldest product still in manufacture was the "iron horse"
Baudot perforator GPE, Sometime back then they quit making the GPE
and brought out the DPE, which was basically a Model 19 keyboard without
a signal generator. Western Union had a nice motor driven perforator
which was their own design perforator built on the keyboard base of a
Model 14 printer set.
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