[GreenKeys] MITE Corp.

[Don Robert House]

Our patrol planes, both the P2V and the P3A, had only the MITE  
installed.
The HF interference was high most of the time and there was no  
provision for diversity.
We only used them to type out messages as we would have used a  
typewriter.
If there was a problem with one it would simply be marked and not  
used. Some were removed to
make more room for the radioman. No one ever attempted to repair one.
The manual was as large as, and heavier than the machine.
The manual was also poorly printed and we had no spare parts.

Don
K9TTY
former AX2 (AC) USN 1962-1968

P.S.  The only other machine in competition for the Naval Air Force  
was the Teletype TT-242
which proved to be very noisy and unreliable.  They were not put into  
production.  We
believe only about 50 were produced for the Navy to test.  The only  
two known to exist are
at the San Diego State University Library along with the only known  
documentation.  All of
the documentation was hand typed and included 8 x 10 glossy photographs.

The research for the TT-242 went on to become the 32 KSR.  History is  
sometimes interesting.




On 22 Feb 2009, at 10:20 AM, Jim Haynes wrote:

See Western Union Technical Review 12:2 April 1958 p. 61-68

I found that Bernard Howard was the only patentee for all of that
company's patents.  You can see by his bio on p 68 that he bounced
around the aerospace industry for a time before getting into the
teleprinter business.

Later on MITE Corp. seemed to be in the sewing machine business, with
various inventors for patents connected with sewing machines.  Wonder
what ever happened to Mr. Howard.

There was also an article in the surplus column of CQ magazine back
when Gordon E. White was writing them.  March 1976 issue, where he
suggests that some political influence was involved in MITE getting
the government business.

Presumably the machines were quite expensive, what with having the
military as the only customer and the rather small production runs
that implies; but then they did have something of a monopoly on small
size.  There is one patent on a tape strip printer that fits inside
the shell of an aircraft panel instrument.

Jim W6JVE



jhhaynes at earthlink dot net

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