Late 1920s mechanical engineering marvel manufactured into the 60s or 70s.

Restoring a Model 15 and a Model 14 Teletype (cued to reassembly point after massive cleaning, followed by testing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSiVYgot9SI&t=1289s

https://rtty.com/development/telety...l-15/index.html

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Thanks! That was cool.

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Wow, yeah, those are pretty intricate devices, more so than I had realized.

I wonder how often back in the day they had to be serviced? Lots of moving parts there with fine tolerances. Full digital devices have just about completely killed those kind of electro-mechanical devices from yesteryear.

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As was the IBM Selectric.


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