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[Doug Alderdice]

At 10:33 PM 2/7/2008 -0900, Tom Elmore wrote:
>Yesterday I sent out an inquiry about what I thought was a 33ASR machine I 
>have in my garage.  I now think it might be a 32 and was wondering how to 
>tell the difference ?

A Model 33 machine, being an 8-level ASCII machine, has four rows of keys, 
much like a standard typewriter or computer keyboard, with numbers across 
the top row.  A Model 32 is a 5-level Baudot machine and has a standard 
Teletype keyboard of three rows of keys with numbers on the shifted top 
(third) row keys.

>There is a Teletype nameplate behind the carriage that says UP502JA? At 
>one time it appears someone had this wired up to a molex connector that 
>mates with my ST-6.

Ah, perhaps this machine was running on RTTY at one time!

>I seem to recall the fellow who gave this me said it had the 100 wpm gear 
>in it. Is there a 60 wpm available for the 32?

Seems like I remember hearing that most 32s were geared for 67 WPM Telex 
service, but I believe that there were 60 WPM gears available.  Don, or 
others who have worked on more of them than me with my one, can better 
answer that.  However, with the demise of TTY Fred and the state of his 
parts warehouse being unknown, I don't know where you'd be likely to find any.

73,

Doug, KA2WFT