[GreenKeys] More Teletypes At Sea

[Henry Minsky]

At 03:02 PM 2/10/2003 -0800, Don Robert House wrote:
>>Battleship New Jersey:
>>
>>http://www.qsl.net/bb62/images/th_radio1tty.jpg
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>>(photo was slow to load)
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>>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
>--


I am fascinatedby the R-T unit, what amounts to an input/output buffer 
implemented
with paper tape. That, combined with the stunt box, was the making of an 
automatic
routing system.  Can anyone tell me more about these machines?
Does anyone, by any chance, have one of these they would
like to part with?