[GreenKeys] Re: Fwd: Quick Brown Fox question

[Ralph Mowery]

Depends on where you are at.  The American TeleType manual states that
72 characters are normal but if wanted up to 76 characters can be
printed by adjusting the unit on the Modle 15 printers.  I think that
maybe 69 is normal for some of the other countries (printers maybe ? ). 

> I thought I remembered that the usual test message was
> 
> THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK
> 
> and that the "'S BACK" was only put in to increase the line length to a
> full line. Hovever, now that I count up that's only 50 characters. I
> thought the teleprinter line length was 69. Is my memory failing?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Sam
>