[GreenKeys] Associated Press Special Dataspeed Receivers

[Don Robert House]

Six level advanced feed hole Type 2 Dataspeed receivers.

I designed the circuit and station equipment for the last installation  
at Paddock Publications in Arlington Heights, IL in the 70's
Clever subset allowed for switch settings depending on the type of  
news to be received.  I have always hoped that at least one would  
still be around.

Jim Haynes is the expert on this equipment.  USAF and the Atomic  
Energy Commission also used the BRPE AND GRPE.
My favorite was the DRPE.  A really fast punch.  More than 1000 words  
a minute.

Memories memories.

Don
K9TTY



On 9 Jan 2009, at 8:40 PM, Til128 at aol.com wrote:

I thought the M20 was just used for type  setting.  Did AP send 6 level
coded news to newspapers to do direct  set-up of their type setting??

--Duncan

Yes--there was a  modified keyboard on the Linotype machines which  
read the
tape, operated the  keyboard and set the line of type. We used MILES  
of tape
during the day. Very  large rolls. BRPEs kept spitting it out.

73,
DE: Tom Tillson
All  Things Electromechanical.
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