[GreenKeys] Western Union

[Peter Gottlieb]

I used to like those Deskfax units. The WU repair office in White Plains used to give them to us and we’d modify them to work over the phone and radio. They wouldn’t work over long distance though. 


Peter
Kb2vtl 

> On Apr 24, 2019, at 8:28 PM, Jim Cooper <jim.w2jc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 24 Apr 2019 at 16:48, Chuck wrote:
>> 
>> Brought one home to see if it can be
>> made to work.  Will work on it later
>> this week and see if I can find any
>> other marking .  Seems to use 3/8th
>> tape as some is still in the one I
>> got.  Don't know if it is gummed
>> yet!!! 
> 
> It is clearly a strip printer 
> ("gummed tape printer") that prints 
> the telegram message, to later be 
> glued onto the telegram form for 
> delivery ... 
> 
> It does the same thing as the old 
> Teletype Model 14 strip printer, but 
> this one looks a lot more 'modernized' 
> and probably lighter-weight ... 
> 
> Use of strip printers ended somewhere 
> around the mid-60s ... which is when I 
> worked for WU ... and replaced by the 
> Teledeltos facsimilar recorder (did they 
> ever smell !!) and then the Telex. 
> 
> Jim   W2JC   (ex W2BVE)
> 
> 
> 
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