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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1588785, member: 66&quot;]Hey Doug I thought you were old.&nbsp; Am I the only one who remembers the teletype network?&nbsp; If you want a coin and you couldn&#039;t find it at the local dealer, the coin shows, or a trade publication ad you could go to a larger dealer and have them put a request &quot;on the machine&quot;.&nbsp; From the late 50&#039;s til at least the early 80&#039;s there was a dealers network all across the country linked by teletypes.&nbsp; In the early years it was just a few hundred dealers but it eventually grew to thousands. and they would be constanly buying a selling material back and forth to each other.&nbsp; Some one needs a hundred CC dollars he puts a bid on the type and dealers everywhere could see it and sell if the prices was good enough or the could list an asking price etc (The teletype network was where a lot of the information came from for the CDN in the 60&#039;s and 70&#039;s.)&nbsp; A lot coins, jokes, gossip, and rumors got posted on the type.&nbsp; (I remember once seeing a printout of the teletype and everything being posted the day Kennedy was shot.)&nbsp; Anyway you could get the dealer to search for your desired piece on the network.&nbsp; If you had a serious bid you could now pick the inventory of thousands of dealers and even if a deeal wasn&#039;t made it was now known where a customer was if one did turn up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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