Nice photos!
2016-03-02 23:08 GMT-03:00 Pete Lancashire <p...@petelancashire.com>: > If you (or anyone here) has never worked on a teleprinter (Teletype or > other make) please please please ask someone experienced. If not one can > and many time has happened is all plastic parts of which there are many in > a 32/33 and few in a 28/35/37 can be destroyed. > > Having said that, if you end up with a 35, join the mailing list called > "greenkeys". Greenkeys is slang for teleprinter 'nuts' and the name > comes from the color of the keycaps in later Teletype machines.. And some > on the list can give good advice, some not so much. There are members who's > job was to service these beasts. I have had machines brought to me that > were basically destroyed and would have > been easy fixes if left alone before hand. > > Please never turn one on unless they have been checked out. > > Sorry to butt-in but hate to see them get messed up. > > -pete > > > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove < > captainkirk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2 March 2016 at 17:50, <ste...@malikoff.com> wrote: > > > The I/O for the machine was (I believe) an ASR-35 the bigger brother to > > the ASR-33. I couldn't take it, it was > > > wedged in behind the other racks and I had only a limited amount of > time > > to load the equipment before I had to > > > head back interstate to home. I did not see any sign of the optional > I/O > > Selectrics shown in the brochure, as I > > > would definately have liked to have found those if I could have! I > don't > > think this machine had them, only the > > > ASR-35, as no printout I found appeared to be done by a Selectric. > > > > > You definitely want that 35ASR. They're absolute tanks, and you could > > probably bring it back up with a bit of oil and grease from its > > current state (I exaggerate somewhat). > > > > The Model 35 series of Teletypes just isn't as common as the Model 33 > > machines (though I think the "rarest" 35 right now is either the 35KSR > > or 35RO; with the 35ASR being more common). They are definitely > > worthwhile to have, since their mechanism is more robust and sturdy > > than the mechanism of the Model 33, since the Model 35 is based on the > > older (5-bit) Model 28 mechanisms (extended to 8-bit). > > > > > > Cheers, > > Christian > > -- > > Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove > > STCKON08DS0 > > Contact information available upon request. > > > > >