[GreenKeys] Early teletype round keyboard.

[Christian Gauger-Cosgrove]

Mildly off topic, but…

If you browse onto YouTube and look for some gameplay videos of "L.A.
Noire" (the video game from 2011), the Team Bondi/Rockstar people did
quite some work on making getting 1947 Los Angeles to be period
accurate, and you see the police call boxes used *a lot*.

It's actually a pretty good neo-noir/detective storyline. Though…
yeah… the game most assuredly deserves it's "M" rating. (As the name
should imply "Homicide" division is *not* a land of unicorns and
rainbows.)

Anyway, that's off topic. We now return you to your regular
programming: Teletype machines (of all sorts) are cool, yeah?

Cheers,
Christian


On 22 July 2016 at 14:01, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>     I never saw one-way call boxes for police in L.A. but we had a system of
> fire call boxes until the mid-1960s.  The police boxes had regular common
> battery telephones in them, a system referred to as the "Gamewell" after its
> manufacturer.  Gamewell probably also made the fire alarm boxes. The fire
> alarm boxes were discontinued and removed after it became very common for
> street people to walk down a street and pull every one they came to. It was
> a simple telegraph system with a code wheel in the box which sent the number
> of the box as spaced pulses. These rang bells in the fire houses and also
> operated a tape register. I don't know how long the police call boxes
> remained in use but they were actively used when I worked for the city in
> the early to mid 1960s. The cops were encouraged to use them instead of the
> radio for running suspects, etc, to keep the radio channels clear.
>
> On 7/22/2016 10:42 AM, Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
>>
>> On 7/21/2016 3:51 PM, John Nagle wrote:
>>>
>>> I've seen that keyboard for sale on eBay a few times. I've never seen
>>> the receiving end for sale, though.  149 units produced, supposedly.
>>
>> Not very many, so it IS rare.
>> But rare doesn't mean "not useless."
>>
>> I can see where they were headed with it though.
>> I had to be a LOT cheaper than a Model 15 at both ends.
>>
>> One way communications. A variation of the police call box idea.
>>
>>
>
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