[GreenKeys] Teletype, Teleprinter, Teletypewriter...

[gil smith]

Folks:

Informally, using the term Teletype (or teletype) to refer to our machines 
made by the same, should be no big deal.  Though there is indeed a new 
company called Teletype, who make GPS stuff -- I presume they have rights 
to the name now, so it may be best to avoid public use (eg: on ITTY, or 
IPTTY, or ToIP, or TTYoIP...).
http://www.teletype.com/

I informally refer to my machines as "teletype machines."   I used the term 
"teletypewriters" for a while, but I am leaning toward "teleprinter "as a 
more general term.  Correct me if I am wrong, but teleprinter seems to have 
world-wire usage, whereas teletypewriter seems to have been favored by the 
US military.

gil


At 12:28 PM 2/25/2005, you wrote:
>Group,
>
>DOD didn't worry about it (equipment was officially called TELETYPEWRITER
>SET, TELETYPEWRITER REPEATER SET, etc., regardless of who made it.  So why 
>should
>we worry about it?
>
>In a message dated 2/25/2005 12:33:48 PM Central Standard Time,
>wa2hwj at att.net writes:
> > How about "Teleprinter over Internet" or ToIP"???
> >
> > Jack WA2HWJ
> >
> > -------------- Original message from valerie zeiser <
> > hunybuny at m2404txp.nsr.hp.com>: --------------
> >
> > >WEll - if we REALLY want to get technical, it should
> > >be called "Teleprinter" - as "Teletype" is a trade name
> > >just as is "Kleenex".



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