[GreenKeys] Anyone familiar with the Model 29 (Twenty Nine) Teletype?

[Geo. Hutchison]

GreenKeyers - - -

The Model 29 was a model 28 style machine that only a limited number of 
machines was ever produced.

They did respond to the EBCDIC system.

Anyone who has a DATATEK 9600 Test Unit will see that one of the code 
selections was EBCDIC.

A friend of mine in California had TWO model 29 typing units.

He gave me one of them, and I decided that it would be a marvelous gift 
to the Museum of Communications in Seattle.

During a trip to California I stopped at Paul Cemburra's Amazing 
Teletype Stuff Emporium where I purchased TWO model 29 Keyboards for 
thirty dollars. One was in so-so shape and the other was in excellent 
condition.

The keyboard is a model 28 style with four rows of keys, with one or two 
mushroomed for shifting code levels or some such for either case change 
or function purposes. It fits perfectly in a model 28 cabinet.

I subsequently gave the museum the typing unit and the two keyboards, 
under the assumption they would clean them up a bit and put a whole 
model 29 on display.

During their recent dump of tons of stuff in their warehouse I asked 
about the typing unit and the two keyboards. The so-so one was not 
around, nor was the typing unit. I did find the good condition keyboard 
and recovered it and it is sitting here in a box.

I can only assume that someone pilfered the Typing unit and the so-so 
keyboard and they are gone forever.

My friend still has his other model 29 typing unit and I am going to 
send him the keyboard so he can put the system together.

I also asked them about the Braille Teletype that Jack Hart had sent me 
when he was cleaning out the John Sheetz cornucopia. I had also given 
that to the museum, and I found a somewhat rusty hunk of a Braille tty 
sitting in a dark corner, and I think it was the one I gave them. Their 
warehouse had areas that were extremely humid, due to leaking piping and 
rather sloppy storage of many mechanical items.

That machine is now sitting on the "Projects To Be Completed" shelf.

However, as the weeks go by I find that I'm losing much of my manual 
dexterity, and am considering sending the Braille unit to a person 
skilled in machine kindness and has the moxie needed to make it shine as 
new.

The Braille unit punch block accommodates 1/2-inch wide tape.

I have a LARP which was the basis of the Braille Teletype which would be 
quite suitable for parts for restoring the Braille unit.

Any recommendations for a really talented and patient individual who 
would be interested in restoring this unit??

It's late and I have to go see what's wrong with an HP Wide-Format 
Printer (plotter) in the morning.

I hope I have not dreadfully bored those who read this. I are getting 
old and I want to empty my brain of some fifty years of playing around 
with teletype machines, and passing on what little I know so that it 
will not be lost.

Gdea, Gdea, That's All Folks!!!

W7TTY