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

"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