[GreenKeys] Hot Line, and USSR teleprinter nomenclature, etc
Don Robert House
drhouse at nadcomm.com
Fri Mar 3 14:29:47 EST 2006
Very interestng site Henning.... Can you explain the fourth row of
number keys? I presume you must precede using them with a FIGS or
does the machine automatically insert a figs if you depress one of
the number keys?
Thanks,
Don
On 3 Mar 2006, at 7:40 AM, Henning Treumann wrote:
Hi,
for those who might be interested in seeing better photos of a T51 I can
recommend the website of Udo from Leipzig who is a member of our
dial-up telex network with his T51.
http://www.ddr-rechentechnik.de/html/fernschreiber.html
Of course the site is in German, but I think the pictures speak for
it self.
And he even has put short videos with sound :-) of the operating machine
on his site.
73s,
Henning, DF3OE
www.teleprinter.net
Wendeburg/Germany
----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning Treumann"
<henning at quickweb.de>
To: <GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Hot Line, and USSR teleprinter nomenclature,
etc
> Hello Greenkeyers,
>
> to bring some light into the dark, here what I can tell you about the
> RFT T63-SU12:
>
> The T63-SU12 is the "two language" version of the standard RFT T51
> East German teleprinter. The T51 itself is the East German "copy
> "of the
> Siemens T37 model.
> It is assumed that Siemens moved its teleprinter plant from Berlin
> to the
> south east German mountain region "Erzgebirge" near the city of
> Chemnitz
> to avoid destruction of its factory during the bombings on Berlin
> during
> the WWII.
> When the war was over this region became "Russion occupied zone",
> later GDR
> and the plant with all its machines and tools still remained there,
> of course
> This was the start for the RFT (trademark) teleprinter factory. First
> versions were 100 % Siemens (just another label put onto the cabinet),
> later on they modernized the machine slightly and produced it until
> the
> mid 1980s ! But they were still at least 95 % compatible to an T37
> which production ended in 1957.
> It has a moving platen and a directly attached tape punch. Tape reader
> is separate with own motor.
> (Only Siemens upgraded its T37 with an also directly attached tape
> reader
> at its last verions just before end of production of the T37 line.)
>
> For the demand to communicate with the Soviets RFT developed a
> two language version from the T51 called T63 . It's also a 5 level
> (units)
> Baudot machine.
> Switching to the third level (cyrillic) is done by code character
> no 29.
> (no holes at all on a tape).
> T63 were in common use in the East German Army and bunkers and
> in many official government authorities that had to communicate
> with Russians.
> There were also other language versions for Latin-Greek and Latin-
> Bulgarian
> available, called T63-GR.. and T63-BG..
> Of course there was also strong export of these models to the
> Soviet Union...
> The USSR only produced a copy of a model 14 tape printer, the ST2-M.
> As far as I know, no page printing machines...
> Maybe that's why the hot line was equipped with an East German machine
> and not with a Russian one.
> Another fact might be, that as I know the T63 is the sole ever
> produced two
> language mechanical teleprinter model.
> (I have a Siemens T37 arabic, with ciphering attachments in my
> collection,
> but it only prints arabic! Not even one Latin character on it :-)
> Also funny that it prints from right to left...)
>
> Beginning in the early 1980s the T63-SU was replaced by the electronic
> successor RFT F1100 with dot matrix printer, which of course was much
> easier to handle two different languages to print.
>
> When time allows I will take some new photographs of my machines and
> a copy from the T63 manual and put it on an extra page of my website.
>
> Until then I invite you to visit the Siemens and RFT pages of my
> website:
> www.teleprinter.net
>
> 73s,
> Henning DF3OE
> Wendeburg/Germany
> www.teleprinter.net
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory W. Moore"
> <gwmoore at moorefelines.com>
> To: <GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 11:57 PM
> Subject: [GreenKeys] Hot Line, and USSR teleprinter nomenclature, etc
>
>
>> GE, fellow greenkeyers,
>>
>> On another group, there was a discussion concerning the hot
>> line... now,
>> while I know about the 2 28ASR's, and the crypto stuff
>> having "been there and done that", I don't know the nomenclature
>> of the
>> USSR machine pictured. Anyone in the group familiar
>> with this machine??? How many code levels (I believe 6 from the
>> punch on the left) what speed and OPM? Any
>> info would be greatly appreciated..
>>
>> Photo is at the following URL:
>>
>> http://www.moorefelines.com/greenkeys/US_USSR hot line.jpg
>>
>> many tnks
>> de Greg "GW" Moore WA3IVX/NNN0BVN
>>
>>
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