TELETYPE MODEL 14 TP - COPYING ITTY NEWS - MUSEUM OF COMMUNICATIONS SEATTLE WA

Here is a look at the Teletype Model 14 Tape Printer (made between 1925-1955). These were typically used by Western Union for Telegram service which replaced most Telegraph copy but was succeeded by Fascimilie. Messages received on a Model 14 TP would be cut from the paper tape and then adhered to a Western Union Telegram card.

The TP here is copying ITTY (RTTY) News.

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Education

Tags:

• TELETYPE
• VINTAGE TELEPHONE
• WESTERN UNION
• RTTY
• ITTY

[dinfg6]

@wmbrown6 1010 Wins is the most famous station that still use the teletype sound effects.

[SgtPepper1965]

CKLW's "sound" was actually a Model 15 set at 60 words per minute. That's the machine that produces your standard teletype sound effects.

[douro20]

Looks like the tape advance doesn't quite work right.

[wmbrown6]

It also sounds like this machine, albeit with the sound processed through a phone line, was used for the teletype sound as heard on Philadelphia's KYW Newsradio 1060.

[wmbrown6]

Listening to this and the 14ROTR, it sounds like either of these machines may've formed part of the teletype sound effects heard over the newsreaders during CKLW Radio's "20/20 News" broadcast during their late 1960's/early '70's heyday as a Top 40 station. (Albeit with the OPM as 375 or so, rather than what sounds like 360 OPM here.)