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"sparky" ) writes:
My boss just gave me a tough assignment, I need to find an ARS38 preferrably, but an ARS33 would be OK. This will be used for a promotional thing so cosmetics is more important than functionality. You must mean ASR33 or 38. .... Martin VE3OAT |
Problem is, Sparky, where they once were worth maybe $50 bucks, or
were throw aways, ASR-33's and ASR-38's have become rather rare and valuable. -Chuck Harris sparky wrote: My boss just gave me a tough assignment, I need to find an ARS38 preferrably, but an ARS33 would be OK. This will be used for a promotional thing so cosmetics is more important than functionality. Won't your wife be happy to see that go! I've searched most of the places I know, and thought this might be the best place. Thanks Glenn Sparks KI5GY email me |
Have you tried on line to look up "surplus" outlets? Fair Radio Sales -
sometimes has TTY units up for sale. I can't recall some of the other places off hand, but there are some magazines like Popular Communications - I believe (if memory serves me correct) that have ads for dealers of just such sorts of surplus. Somewhere around here which I have yet to find, is a magazine with a whole page of addresses of dealers of that sort of thing. I'm packing to move, so I have no clue what box it may be in. But there were many addresses. IF all of them carried a unit, your options for price and so on would be good. But try looking up TTY, Military Surplus, etc online. I'm not sure if you have.. but just suggesting. Try perhaps all variations. Even a model number, now that you've been given the correct one. You may be pleasantly surprised. Often if I can't find it with one listing, I try another and another and soon I find a "hit". If I can find that magazine in short order, I'll reply back. Not sure how soon you need it, but I've seen TTYs at hamfests for give away or very dirt cheap. Try one of them. Not sure if they were of the model you seek. MNS "Chuck Harris" wrote in message ... Problem is, Sparky, where they once were worth maybe $50 bucks, or were throw aways, ASR-33's and ASR-38's have become rather rare and valuable. -Chuck Harris sparky wrote: My boss just gave me a tough assignment, I need to find an ARS38 preferrably, but an ARS33 would be OK. This will be used for a promotional thing so cosmetics is more important than functionality. Won't your wife be happy to see that go! I've searched most of the places I know, and thought this might be the best place. Thanks Glenn Sparks KI5GY email me |
I think that I know where one is, but cost of shipping it to you would be
prohibitive. There are surely a bunch of them knocking around somewhere there. Phil "sparky" wrote in message ... My boss just gave me a tough assignment, I need to find an ARS38 preferrably, but an ARS33 would be OK. This will be used for a promotional thing so cosmetics is more important than functionality. Won't your wife be happy to see that go! I've searched most of the places I know, and thought this might be the best place. Thanks Glenn Sparks KI5GY email me |
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:53:30 UTC, Chuck Harris
wrote: Problem is, Sparky, where they once were worth maybe $50 bucks, or were throw aways, ASR-33's and ASR-38's have become rather rare and valuable. -Chuck Harris Really? How valuable. I don't have one and don't want one but that's fascinating. I know a fellow who dumped a warehouse of card equipment about 3 years ago. Sorters, collators, keypunches. He was saving them for 30 years and decided to pitch them. He also had a 4381 mainframe. de ah6gi/4 amazed at what people keep. |
Check eBay.
-Chuck Harris No Spam wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:53:30 UTC, Chuck Harris wrote: Problem is, Sparky, where they once were worth maybe $50 bucks, or were throw aways, ASR-33's and ASR-38's have become rather rare and valuable. -Chuck Harris Really? How valuable. I don't have one and don't want one but that's fascinating. I know a fellow who dumped a warehouse of card equipment about 3 years ago. Sorters, collators, keypunches. He was saving them for 30 years and decided to pitch them. He also had a 4381 mainframe. de ah6gi/4 amazed at what people keep. |
(No Spam @attglobal.net) writes:
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:53:30 UTC, Chuck Harris wrote: Problem is, Sparky, where they once were worth maybe $50 bucks, or were throw aways, ASR-33's and ASR-38's have become rather rare and valuable. -Chuck Harris Really? How valuable. I don't have one and don't want one but that's fascinating. I know a fellow who dumped a warehouse of card equipment about 3 years ago. Sorters, collators, keypunches. He was saving them for 30 years and decided to pitch them. He also had a 4381 mainframe. de ah6gi/4 amazed at what people keep. But that's why they become rare. Remember when the telephone company had programs in place to get teletype machines into the hands of amateurs, rather than scrap them? In the early seventies, I remember hearing that ASCII machines were available here in Canada. But at that time ASCII wasn't allowed on the ham bands (and of course few had the equipment), and home computers hadn't hit yet. So I gather the machines went begging. Then home computers came along, a and they became more valuable, until enough equipment came along so people would rather have video displays and small dot-matrix printers instead of big and noisy teletype machines. That started the decline. Fewer people wanted them, and few wanted to take them, and they took up so much room. That would cause them to be tossed out. So if there is demand, there is a smaller supply, and the price goes up. But if still few want them, and realistically nobody needs a mechanical teletype machine for practical reasons, then the cost remains low. But since the cost is low, it's still easy to dump them. Michael VE2BVW |
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