[GreenKeys] Take our Teletypes!

[Sarah Autumn]

All,

I'm still in the process of getting back to all your emails. Thank you so
much for your interest!

I just wanted to note for everyone: Sundays would generally be the best
days for pickup, but if you need to do it another day, just work that out
with me individually. Only one of us has a key to our storage area because
it's in an active CO and they're very picky about who can get in. I will
work with our key holder, Dale, to ensure that we can access the building
when we need to 😊

Sarah


On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 4:59 PM drlegendre . <drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote:

> @Sara & All
>
> If you're unable to find 'good homes' for the donor machines, then I see
> absolutely +no problem+ with selling them in any way you can, with the
> following provisions: 1) Selling price must be high enough to make a scrap
> sale unprofitable (check the local prices for mixed-metals). 2) Proceeds go
> to further the goals of the museum, etc. These satisfied, there is no good
> reason not to put them on eBay, craigslist, etc.
>
> No one is going to purchase & ship these just for the pleasure of putting
> them in a dump.
>
> @ All
>
> I've got my eye on that perforator.. I doubt I'll end up with it (shipping
> is prohibitive, I'd think - even if she's willing), but it sure looks like
> fun to bring it back to life!
>
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> I'd just like to put in a good word for the Seattle museum and for
> Sarah Autumn.  The museum is fabulous, has working exhibits of the
> Step by Step, Panel, #1 crossbar and #5 crossbar switches, all in
> two floors of a telephone company building, and the telephone company
> supplies 48VDC to run their stuff.  Heaven help us if the telephone
> company ever decides to evict them!  I was pleased to see that most
> of the people working there are young to middle aged, so their knowledge
> of this technology will not soon die with them.  Sarah is more or less
> the curator of the Teletype section of the museum, and is doing a nice
> job of getting things showable and working.  Every museum (short of
> what somebody has privately in a barn) has to limit what it takes in
> to things that are in line with its objectives and its available space.
>
> Yes, if we're going to donate our stuff, we'd like to see it go where
> it will be appreciated.  I think places like the Seattle museum and
> the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA are better destinations
> than corporate-sponsored museums.  I remember the company that bought the
> Western Union name was going to have a museum, but as soon as the man
> behind it retired the whole concept went away.  And seems like Western
> Electric-Lucent was going to start a museum at one time and maybe
> collected some artifacts before the corporate honchos decided they
> were not going to support it.  The Teletype Corp. museum almost went
> to the dump, but a couple of managers got permission to try to find
> homes for the artifacts and were able to distribute them among a large
> number of museums.
>
> And then it's a fact that the kind of heavy metal we collect is
> extremely expensive to ship.
>
>
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