[GreenKeys] Re: Five Level Baudot / ITA2 keyboard layouts

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Robert:

I'm referring to the 5 keys used by Baudot.  Two fingers of the left hand and 
three fingers of the right hand.  One finger for each key, no hunt and peck needed.

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
http://www.precisionclock.com



Don Robert House wrote:
> Brooke,
> 
> Somehow I think I am failing to understand your question.  The  
> teletypewriter keyboard in the USA and Great Britain are both QWERTY  
> keyboards.  The French and German keyboards are different.  The only  
> difference in operating a 3 row keyboard is the use of Carriage  Return 
> Line Feed Letters for alphabet and Figures for upper case  characters.
> 
> Near the end of 5 level Baudot (actually ITA2) Teletype, Lorenz and  
> Siemens built 5 level ITA2 Keyboards with four rows.  The upper row  of 
> numbers did not operate unless the FIGS key was depressed first.   In 
> the Bell System we had women that went to each new Teletype  
> installation and trained the operators.  Larger companies had their  own 
> Chief Operators that trained the operators.
> 
> Some difficulties always came up due to the different needs of  
> different businesses. There were basically 3 different standard sets  of 
> upper case characters.  Fractions was used for Teletypewriter  Exchange 
> Service (TWX)  Communications (expanded punctuation) was  used for most 
> businesses with a couple of differences in the position  and related 
> code for the exclamation mark, the question mark, the  pound sign, the 
> apostrophe, and the quotation mark.  The third  standard was for weather 
> machines.
> 
> Training and practice was what people needed to master the three row  
> system.  With the advent of ASCII the keyboards became more like  
> typewriters but still with the need for Carriage Return, Line Feed,  and 
> Rubout.  Some machines were modified to use a key labeled NEW  LINE to 
> accomplish Line Feed automatically with the generation of  Carriage Return.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Don
> K9TTY
> 
> On 2 Sep 2007, at 2:45 PM, Brooke Clarke wrote:
> 
> Hi Don:
> 
> Do you know of any instructions to Baudot keyboard operators?
> Was there some easy way to remember which keys to press for which  
> character or was it just memorization of 32 patterns?
> 
> Have Fun,
> 
> Brooke Clarke
> http://www.PRC68.com
> http://www.precisionclock.com
> 
> 
> 
> Don Robert House wrote:
> 
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