[GreenKeys] Sagem TX21 Restauration

[Henning DF3OE]

For those who might be interested in seeing also other machines than
Teletype (TM)
I have uploaded photos of my last restauration project to Picasa:

http://tinyurl.com/qxoqoq2

or
https://picasaweb.google.com/102610705660747512881/SagemTX21Restauration?authkey=Gv1sRgCKLe-Jr6-eCisAE

This spring I finally restaurated a Sagem TX21 with help and spare
parts from my Australian
friends Richard from Queensland and Nick from Sydney.
I got the machine a couple of years ago from a friend who was living
for a number of years
in Cairo / Egypt and occasionally found teleprinters at the local flea
market / bazar.

The Sagem TX21 is the dual language (in my case Latin-Arabic) version of the
standard (Latin) TX20.  It is French made and outside France it was
used as the first
electronical machine for the Australian Telex network in large quantities.
Production started in 1976 and lasted into the end 1980s.
Due to its dot matrix printer is was quite easy to print also other
languages than Latin-style.
This made it Sagem easy to enter the markets of the Arabic hemisphere.

here is a photo of a TX21 in the Canadian Embassy in Baghdad in 1990:

http://www.jproc.ca/crypto/cdn_embassy_baghdad_line_equip_1990.jpg

(The left hand machines might be Hasler SP330)

Thanks to Richard and Nick I was able to get a new print head and
sensor unit and a
double current line board with that I can use the machine now with our
TelexPhone / i-Telex network interface and talk to others.

Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Henning DF3OE
Blumenhagen Mill / Germany

www.teleprinter.net

TelexPhone: +49 5176 975478
i-Telex: 92612