[GreenKeys] Manuals

[dmm at lemur.com]

On Sunday, David Christ wrote:
>Back in May I posted a question about what to do with old TTY 
>manuals.  Nick England and Riceguy sain that many have been scanned 
>and can be downloaded form the Internet.  But where?  I decided to 
>try to find them but somehow have come up dry.  Any clues?
>
>David  K0LUM

and a couple of folks responded with the location online of Model 33
manuals.  Just to complete the list, see also the extensive archives at:

http://www.rtty.com/development/index.html
http://www.hertzmail.com/TTY/
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/teletype/


I've also scanned TM 11-2215; it's now online on The Internet Archive:

http://www.archive.org/details/TM_11_2215_Teletypewriter_TT_5_FG_Model_15

and the short TTY bulletin 1044 for relays; it's at:

http://www.marcdatabase.com/~lemur/temp/teletype-bulletin-1044-issue-4-1940-11-RY-20-WECO-215A-and-RY-28-WECO215H-and-RY-30-WECO255A-2048x.pdf

but as it will move online it is better tracked through an index of digital
reprints at:

http://www.circuitousroot.com/reprints.html

If your interests extend to the Teletypesetter (6-level tape) and some
related 6-level typesetting tape apparatus (e.g., the Compugraphics Justape),
I've scanned 13 DVD's worth of this so far.  It's not online (yet!)
but I'm happy to make copies of the DVDs for serious enthusiasts.


I would also note that I'm willing to archive pretty much any amount
of TTY (and TTS, and Linotype, etc.) documentation rather than see it
go to the landfill, and to scan it as time permits.
(Right now the scanning queue is pretty full with a Thompson Typecaster
manual and a new stack of TTS documents lent to me, but I will get to
the rest of the TTY docs that I have, in time.)



As there is a good sense of community to greenkeys, I'll also note some
of the reasons it has taken me three days to respond to David Christ's
posting.

First, I hauled home yet another Linotype this last weekend (this makes
five Linotypes in all).  Regrettably I have few pictures of this move
(too busy rigging).  Here is a view of the machine before we moved it,
from a friend's flickr photostream:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/firebrat/2698640581/in/set-72157603226878836/

Here it is last Sunday, safely in my driveway:
http://www.lemur.com/private/m5wrapped-crop-1024.jpg
http://www.lemur.com/private/m5unwrapped-1024.jpg

We had to take about 1/3 of the machine apart just to fit it through
the bricked-up ex-storefront of the building it was in.  This was more
disassembly than I'd planned, but it did help distribute the load.
The part in the trailer is perhaps 1,500 lbs.  The rest went in the truck.
Reassembling it is going to be an educational experience.

It went onto the trailer with a come-along, but was able to use my
tractor (with pallet forks) to remove it from the trailer.

You can perhaps see why I don't look upon Teletypes as heavy :-)

This is the fifth Linotype, but the first one that I've managed to move
(a) without a forklift, and (b) in my own trailer.

The other time-consuming item has been building what will be (in part)
the new home for this machine:

http://www.lemur.com/temp/building/


So I'm just a little bit tired right now :-)

Regards,
David M.
===
Dr. David M. MacMillan * dmm at lemur.com * www.lemur.com & www.CircuitousRoot.com

   The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
       - Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915); Aldo Leopold