195X Siemens 68D #unknown
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Guillermo Fernandez Boan (ORTBRAKER)
Created: 06-29-2016 at 08:10PM
Last Edit: 06-29-2016 at 08:15PM
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Description:
This black machine is the European Armies version (there was another version, in beige, suited to civil use). I've borrowed a stock photo of the civil version, in order to compare between both models. The civil version is the telephone dial model. Mine (without telephone dial) was usually the interface of a cipher machine.
It types text as a single line onto a gummed paper strip, Possibly you remember old telegrams like lines of gummed paper strips containing the message (cipher or text). The gummed paper was in a huge roll under the teletype (look at the photo). This one arrives home with a full gummed paper roll.
I can not say if it is in operative condition. Looks like everything is in its place but I do not have the electric cord.
It is a compact and massive (20 kg) memento of Cold War times.
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Hunter: Guillermo Fernandez Boan (ORTBRAKER)
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Argentinian lawyer resident in Buenos Aires city.
For half a century, enthusiast typist. Now enthusiast typewriter hunter.
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