TELETYPE MODEL 15 KSR - COPYING ITTY - MUSEUM OF COMMUNICATIONS, SEATTLE

This is the last Model 15 KSR in service (PNB) on the Transmountain Pipeline. It began its service in
the mid 1930s and ran until 1984. Does it get a 50 year service pin?
Here it is fully serviced and copying the ITTY news service @ 60WPM

[@nakayle]

When I worked at a radio station years ago I love to hang around the news room listening to these things. There was just something hypnotic about their rhythmic clacking. I even like the unique smell of the ink and oil. Then they took these out and replaced them with much smaller machines that used some sort of dot-matrix print head. They just made little grunting sounds like a ginny pig. Life was never the same after that. :-(

[@znentitan4032]

I remember being a kid visiting the Smithsonian and their "History Of The News" exhibit, with a working teletype printing out stories from various wire services to what I always will think of as "the sound of history"

[@mybeachshack]

WOWEE.... My dad was a telegraph operator for the Missouri Pacific for 28yrs. His office was just full of these teletype machines up until 1969 or '70. As a kid, i was mesmerized by the machinery and sounds. You had to SHOUT to be heard in his office area. Up until that time, there was still the wooden sounder-box for the telegraph key messages, btw. THANK YOU so much for posting this video. Wunderful ! I recall he used to complain about 'wire thieves' along the tracks too! All Aboard!

[@Bata.andrei]

That is poetry in motion! What fantastic machines! They have soul, something that modern computing equipment do not posess...

[@brslib01]

As a WAC, I worked in the Com Center for several years and the sound of the teletype machine brings back memories.

[@chrisnzella]

(in a deep radio voice, "THIS JUST IN TO OUR NEWS DESK..." :)

[@donaldlampert331]

I've just gotten a model 15, and model 19 - not operating yet. It's so cool to see them in operation. Thanks

[@jbrown21m]

Sadly my old 15 got moved out into the barn when the PCs took over. Bought it in 1972 at the Ft Wayne, Indiana hamfest for my ham radio station. My baby boy used to get the biggest kick when the bell would ring. Thanks for the video, ...music to MY ears!

[@good.citizen]

thank you for the interesting communication video every time the bell rings youtube owes you 12.5 cents .

[@mstrixtemstwister]

I love the sound

[@chelseastevenson6459]

Beautiful 💖

[@robertterry6843]

Went to USAF Teletype Repair School at Cheyenne,Wyo. Age 17, March to November 1953-- After Boot Camp December 16, 1952.. Not an easy year for a High School Dropout--But Thanks to a WW-2 & Korean War Veterans help in Schooling me After Duty Hours..I Made it Through with Flying Colors..Went on to More Training of Other Communication Equipment that worked In Conjunction With Teletype Equipment..Completed 7 Year USAF Tour of Active Duty On 12/15/1959 & Transferred to Inactive Reserves for One year to Complete my 8 Year Obligation to Our Country...1961 Got Back to it After Joining the USAF Ready Reserve Unit at Santa Barbara,CA. Armory for 4 More Years...During the Korean War All American Males Were Required to Serve Our Country for 8 Years in Some Capacity of Active and or Reserve duty....

[@thomaswyatt9509]

was hired by Western Union in Chicago went to Teletype school in 1966 and was overhauling 14,15, and 28 KSR printers at 18 years old.

[@garyhammond8120]

I have repaired the TTY ASR34 and ASR35. We used them all the time for USAF Communications.

[@dieselheart001]

Can you imagine these great old machines being used as back-up communication devices once again? I can. Nothing is built this well, anymore. No modern printer or fax would have survived as long as these.

[@douro20]

And they are simple to service. The later Model 28/35 hunt-and-peck machines are considerably faster but nightmarishly complex.

[@sammythebeliever9916]

Resisting... *snore... The urge... *snore... to fall asleep... *snore... so... relaxing... *snore We like the sound of machinery because when it's done a task it sounds like it's done. It's that feeling of our needs being fulfilled that makes us feel sleepy. These sounds feel final and affirmative, like you can turn it off at any time. It's predictable and in your control. That's why people fall asleep in the car all the time.

[@rarebreed9208]

Reminds me of when i first entered law enforcement in 1976. Used this same type of machine to run license plates and every other kind of record check. We used to call it the washing machine.

[@heavisidelayer]

dream machine, music to my ears, my bread and butter in the 70's :))

[@exnevadan]

@douro20 The horizontal bars are called vanes and are positioned by sword shaped levers in the selector magnet area. I don't remember which position is 1 or 0. The bell crank levers glide along the vanes and position the crescent shaped notched bars on the carriage. A selected pull bar will fall into aligned notches and become operated by the pull bar bale. The pull bar is geared to a type bar and a character will then be printed.

[@KCGeno]

As a longtime radio and TV guy ... I sure miss that sound!

[@denelson83]

"All news, all the time. This is 1010 WINS. You give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world."

[@doriscampbell9775]

She is smoking. Being sent from a tape and either slash wire or radio. Take my word for it, those were fun to work on. John (Doris's old man)

[@larryhagemann5548]

A stately pioneer in the TTY lineup.

[@douro20]

As I understand it, the horizontal bars are solenoid driven and carry commands to the printing mechanism in Baudot code. Am I correct to assume that an upwards position represents a '1' and a downwards position represents a '0' or is it the other way around?

[@chefelr]

This device uses Baudot code ( 5 bits) . You can see the 5 solenoid's braces controlling the tips.

[@KCGeno]

@nakayle I used to call the newer dot-matrix printer "The Zitzer" because of the sound it made. Zit-zit-zit-zit! Zit-zit-zit! etc etc ...

[@allanegleston13]

where does one find type writer ribben for these nowadays?

[@Radio_Militar]

I am looking the switch 1F5A to my teletype UGC-74 or the keyboard 3A2A1 because i push some words and don't print it, some can help me? thanks

[@douro20]

A lot of people who own teletypes use them with a current-loop translator connected to a PC...

[@JamesKingsleyQPatriotOrg]

EARLY TWITTER...lol

[@chrisnzella]

Can you imagine Facebook being like this going 24/7? :)

[@markhall7646]

No.

[@markhall7646]

No.

[@paulcohen1555]

Probably most of the operators suffered from permanent hearing degradation.

[@OmegaWolf747]

How does a teletype receive its newsfeed? Someone on another video mentioned a program called Heavy Metal. Is the teletype connected to a computer running the software? Could a teletype receive and printout a Twitter feed?