[GreenKeys] More Teletypes At Sea

[John Parker]

Looks like tech control to me.

John Parker, RMCS (SS) USN (Ret)


At 03:02 PM 2/10/03 -0800, Don Robert House wrote:
>>Battleship New Jersey:
>>
>>http://www.qsl.net/bb62/images/th_radio1tty.jpg
>>
>>(photo was slow to load)
>>
>>What is all this neat M-28 gear?
>
>Hello Bill,
>
>The unit in the foreground with the "gold Box behind it is a Receive Only 
>version of the AN/UGC-77 a Tempest low level unit.  The printers in the 
>"waterfall" cabinets are M28 compact printers in cabinets designed for 
>locations with space problems.  The two triple readers in a single 
>mounting are M28 multi-mount transmitters.  They use a common drive shaft 
>but can send at different speeds.  The unit that looks like a glass 
>refrigerator is a M28 R-T unit used to re-transmit traffic coming in at 
>one speed and sending it back out at another speed.  We have a couple of 
>R-T units here at the museum.  The readers with the "climbing head" are 
>interesting.  They read the tape all the way up to the last character 
>punched in the tape.
>
>Regards,
>Don
>--
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>Don Robert House
>North American Data Communications Museum
>URL: http://www.nadcomm.org
>Computer Museum of America
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