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Hi group, This is an awesome topic and also hope to see that list. But my main reason for posting was a great find a decade ago that I made while working with a club that I use to belong to. They are responsible for maintaining the old Milwaukee Road/CB&Q tower that was in Newport Minnesota. While going through one of the cabinets, I found a very intriguing electronic box. After inspecting it, I figured out that it was an old Telegraphers training device. It had several paper-tape rolls that could be run through the device and it would output the dots/dashes on the tape for the Telegraph Operator to decipher. One member was going to throw the device away thinking it was useless, but fortunately I intercepted the toss and saved the device. I handed it to the club president (at the time) and told him to save it at all cost and relayed exactly what it was. I intend to talk to him again soon to see where the device ended up and if at all possible, gain custody of it. If I do get my hands on it, I hope to find an old teletype machine that has a paper-tape reader/puncher and make copies of all the tapes (they were getting old and I am sure fragile). If successful, I will make a couple of recordings that I can post to the group. Tom Johnson __._,_.___ Posted by: t.m.j@comcast.net __,_._,___ |