I collect older teleprinters (Teletype, Morkrum-Kleinschmidt, etc) and twice now I've seen where they have had their keyboards removed and the machine put out for scrap. One a quite rare Navy version of the model 28 known as a compact case variation where someone had used what looked like a reciprocating saw to cut the keyboard off.
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Ed via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > or lost in space collectors that rip the b205 front panel from the > machine and leave the rest to be destroyed in fire or flood... > > > > In a message dated 7/18/2017 11:27:44 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, > cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: > > Keyboard collectors are a great evil in this world. I liken them to ivory > poachers. > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > Re-purposed art or vandalism? > >>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/253015301943 > >>> > >> > > On Tue, 18 Jul 2017, Eric Christopherson via cctalk wrote: > > > >> It (literally) looks like something out of Pee-Wee's Playhouse. > >> > > > > Earlier than that. > > The seller may have grown up with Peewee Herman, > > but that kind of painting decoration, with such color schemes and > > disjointed themes, wasn't all that uncommon in the late sixties. > > > > > > > > > -- > Ian Finder > (206) 395-MIPS > ian.fin...@gmail.com > > >
