[GreenKeys] Was Model 40 - GE Terminet 300

[Jim Haynes]

The G.E. Terminet 300 and descendants was a remarkable machine -
for one thing G.E. had never made such a product before.  It was
done by the Communication Products operation in Virginia, one of
the businesses that G.E. has long since shed, and which at
the time was largely devoted to mobile radio equipment in competition
with Motorola.  It was contemporary with Teletype's mechanical
monstrosity, the Model 37.  I've always wondered how G.E. was able
to get such a product designed and produced and marketed when it was
such a radical departure from everything else they had ever done.

And I'm amazed to learn that there is a Model 40 printer that is still
operable.  Type carriers I have had, even new ones in the box, have all
turned to crumbs.  There is a business, Datacap (datacap-inc.com) in
San Diego founded by a couple of ex-Teletype engineers which for a long
time made its money by adapting non-Teletype printers for owners of
Model 40 systems whose original printers were failing.

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