[GreenKeys] Flexowriter Info

[Doug Alderdice]

The following came from a visitor to my web site.  I have no information 
about the Flexowriter for this gent; perhaps someone on this list can help 
him.  The "cement mixer" he refers to in his note is my Model 12, and my 
telegraph items can be viewed at http://www.pce.net/dalderdi/telegrph.htm

Also, a reminder to those in the Western New York state area, this weekend 
is the spring outing of my working telegraph display.  Venue is the Keenan 
Arena, 195 Beattie Ave, Lockport, NY.  Show times are 10-5 Saturday 4/27, 
and 10-4 Sunday 4/28.  The show is the 2002 Railroad Showcase and it's a 
favorite of RR buffs of all kinds -- modelers, prototypers, etc.  Alas, I 
will have no teletypes on display, but I will have a working telegraph line 
and a crank phone line with RR-type field phones going.  (just got done 
twisting the pairs for that!)  Look for the telegraph poles with the birds 
on them!

Thanks es 73,

Doug, KA2WFT
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Subject: Message from Internet
Date:    24-Apr-02 at 13:23
From:    Arthur H Sanders, INTERNET:artsanders1@juno.com

TO: INTERNET:ka2wft@arrl.net



Doug--(I hope I have the right connection)
   Your collection of the teletypers is amazing, and I only wish I were
closer and younger. I am deep into research of the electro-mechanical
genius types that developed, constructed, and improved mechanical
typewriters similar to the FLEXOWRITER. This could be called the final
piece, because it went as far as they could--fortunately electronics came
in soon after. But can you tell me if your teletypers use the same type
of translaters as these early I B M monsters,with the notched plates
which allow for a key to be selected/? Do you have close-up photos of
your "cement-mixer"--fantastic? Have you ever seen a technicians repair
manual for teletyper, or Flexowriter, or even a Robotyper?Thanks--