[GreenKeys] Model 40, Anyone?

[Clay Archer]

I believe John Wilson, K0IP in Idaho has several of them.    I don’t think he is in the Greenkeys group, but you can find his contact info on QRZ or just google his call sign.   He was trying to sell me one about 5 months ago.

 

I was maintaining a Model 40 throughout the 80’s and changed the type chain twice.   I thought it was a great printer even though it would wake the dead even with the sound cover closed.    It was at an actuarial firm connected to an Imsai 8080 running MPM (multi user CP/M) with a Control Data Cartridge Module hard drive (16MB fixed, 16MB removable) and about 12 serial terminals.   I eventually upgraded them to a  Novell server, but kept the Model 40.    I turned the customer over to another tech when I moved from California in ’89.  I don’t know how long he was able to keep it going.

Clay

KG7LWX

 

 

From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Nick England
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2019 1:34 PM
To: Jordan Spencer Cunningham
Cc: GreenKeys
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Model 40, Anyone?

 

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.

 

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Jordan Spencer Cunningham

teletype.net

 

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