[GreenKeys] FIGS "D" & ITA#2 on the M32

Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:27:33 +0100

Hi,

European TELEX machines do not punch the "whos is?" (FIG D) either.

Henning, DF3OE
www.teleprinter.net

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Jack" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:59:30 -0500

>Chuck,
>
>I will admit, that is a curious "feature"; since my background is Bell TTY,
>I never worked on the Telex machines (they were the RCA and WU machines).
>But, I do have a beautiful 32ASR Telex machine and that's what got me
>thinking about that odd sequence. I would assume
>a Lorenz (European TELEX Model 15) does the same thing.
>If you send the FIGS D from anywhere else the answerback will trip. So, the
>FIGS D will have to be somehow "locked out". Of course, you could try to
>figure out how to mechanically defeat it...but I wouldn't recommend that in
>a 32 since they are so prone to act squirrely even when they do work.
>
>Jack
>
>
>
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