[GreenKeys] Model 40, Anyone?

[Nick England]

I would very sincerely like to find and preserve one or two printers
complete with crumbled chain and pile of type pallets. I believe 3D
printing might be able to fabricate chains some time in the future, but if
all the printers are in the dump, there’s no hope at all, ever. End of
story.

I’ve got a M40 controller and a couple of mag tape units waiting for a CRT
terminal and printers.

You may think I’m crazy and you might be right - heck I’m the guy with an
Inktronic waiting its turn on my workbench.
Cheers
Nick


On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:13 PM Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been told that even the NOS print chains have crumbled to dust so
> the chances of a working printer are zero. I think Paul Cembura still uses
> his M40 CRT terminal regularly.
>
> I’d like find some M40 gear to play with since the US Navy used it aboard
> some ships. Here is the message center aboard the battleship USS Wisconsin.
> http://www.navy-radio.com/tty-m40.htm
>
> Cheers
> Nick
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 12:58 PM Jordan Spencer Cunningham <
> js at teletype.net> wrote:
>
>> Just curious if anyone has a working Model 40. Just total assumptions
>> here, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the CRT monitors in
>> those things probably haven't aged well, nor the chains (belts?) in the
>> printers. I guess if they're actually chains, maybe they've survived better.
>>
>>
>> I recall there were some available from the museum in Washington a couple
>> years back-- that was the first I ever heard anything about them.
>>
>> Also, anyone know how well sales were for these things? They came around
>> at a time when the industry was having very extreme changes. I have no real
>> insight into how things were for Teletype at the time except that I know
>> they shut down operations by 1990, but I envision them struggling to stay
>> relevant in a world that was becoming increasingly computerized, digital,
>> and microsized. The Model 40 suite seems like it was an attempt to stay
>> relevant but probably didn't didn't do too well. What do I know? I'm just
>> trying to read between the lines.
>>
>> -
>> Jordan Spencer Cunningham
>> teletype.net
>>
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