[GreenKeys] Table top M35 KSR...

Wed Jul 22 20:31:40 EDT 2015

Some hospitals also  used tabletop KSR TTY 35s

>From  some  rough  notes on Computer Exchange 

I know,  as we  bought a van load   from  a  hospital near  Burbank or 
Glendale Calif (need  to search my  memory more!)   in the early days of our  
computer biz.   Read on...

 I had been visiting Jim McGinnis at Vurdugo  Computers in 1980  and a call 
came  though  for  him  about teletypes the  hospital wanted to get  rid 
of. I heard  Jim say Teletypes and my ears  perked up  and  and  Jim leaned 
over and   asked "Ed  You like teletypes right?"  I nodded and grinned and  he 
  wrote  down  some information and concluded the  call. Jim  smiled,  
handed me the paper.  I  chased  over to the  hospital   and bought the entire  
pile   for   $150  and totally filled that  big  Chevy  van. When  teletype  
have no stands  you can put  a lot of them in a  van! First row was on 
their sides  nested together with blanket    between to keep them  from breaking 
the plastic filling length   of  van   the  planets on top  and   more  
ttys  sitting on to  of that.  HEAVY LOAD!   I pumped  the air shocks up!

I  went  back to Jim's  and  thanked   him.   On my  return  he asked me  
"if I had gotten  them  for free"... "What?   no  I  paid the   $150"  I  
said... he  chucked  and made  some remark  about me  being "overly 
enthusiastic" - - Heck I was  happy to  have them  for the  $150 !

Anyway  I  hauled them all back to Arizona  resold them  as  personal 
computer  printers  and  terminals  for  students to log into  school   timeshare 
systems.

Looking  back on it  this  cash generated by the sale of  these units was  
a  key  part of the starting of my  'empire!'

Jim and  I went  on to do other  deals on terminals ,  printers and  I  
always  tried to send  him leads of   people looking  for DG computers.

OK - These are the only   tabletops I  ever   saw...  and  should one turn 
up in Phoenix area is  probably one  that passed though my hands  and would 
love to have it  for  the  SMECC Museum  collection.Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ 
(http://www.smecc.org/)  

In a message dated 7/22/2015 4:10:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
62.5milliamps at gmail.com writes:

Many of these 35 KSR sets were used as terminals to  communicate with the 
#1 ESS WECo electronic switch.  
I had one in my museum. By the time the #5 ESS came out the terminal used  
was the Model 40 KDP.

The Number 101 ESS… the first WECo electronic switch, had a Model 28  KSR
with a modified keyboard and a modified type box.  It was very  weird.

All except the #5 were coupled to the switches with a -130Vdc 62.5  
milliamp loop.

The Bell System provided the USA with the finest telecommunications  
network in the world.
I am pleased that I was part of it.  DRH

On 21 Jul 2015, at 3:15 PM, John Whitney wrote:

Hello greenkey members.

I'm trying to restore a Desktop M35 KSR,  and some of the vibration 
dampeners have turned to goo from contact with  oil.  Here is a picture of a set 
that is in pretty good  shape...

http://www.vintagebytes.com/photos/2015/20150721-m35-dampeners.jpg

Does  anyone have some of these parts?

The parts of these that have not had  contact with oil, seem to be in very 
good shape, so New Old Stock could be  good.  I need 4 sets.

Thank you.
-- 
John :-)
_john at johnwhitney.com_ (mailto:john at johnwhitney.com) 
801 815  9265
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