Fwd: Re: [GreenKeys] Windtalkers TTY

Tue, 2 Jul 2002 20:53:10 -0700

>Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:22:21 -0700
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>From: Don Robert House <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Windtalkers TTY
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>>Anyone recognize this model (eBay link
>>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1546122944 ). Hard to
>>make it out in the picture and the TM number means nothing to me. Don't know
>>a thing about it but figure someone here has to! An evil friend pointed it
>>out to me, he KNOWS I'm trying to kick the eBay habit!
>
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>It looks like a Kleinschmidt TT-4 type machine, which was not WWII 
>vintage.  The Army used Model 15s in chests during WWII.  TG-7 not 
>TT-4 which was Vienam vintage.  The number on ebaY is the number of 
>the Technical Manual: TM 11-5815-206-12
>
>Windtalkers is taking a lot of flak for gross inaccuracies.  This is 
>just one of the minor ones.
>Basically a bad movie.  You can see the real stuff and talk with a 
>genuine codetalker at the Computer Museum of America, 640 C Street, 
>San Diego, CA   10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.  Most of 
>the code talker display was arranged for through Warren Brader, good 
>man that he is.
>
Don
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