[GreenKeys] What did the soviets use in the 40s to 60s for TTY's ?

[David Ross]

Pete & the gang -

   The Russians used 'third-shift' machines, to accommodate Cyrillic 
characters.  The T63SU13 was one of the Russian's later machines -  
google comes up with a few hits for it and you'll see a photo here:
<http://members.a1.net/oaw1/wago12.htm>
   There is an explanation of the Cyrillic shift scheme, but it is in 
German.  Google will translate it for you like this:
<http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://members.a1.net/oaw1/wago12.htm&ei=hW5cTLaVOIj2tgPGpenDDw&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBwQ7gEwAA&prev=/search%3Fq%3DDie%2BMaschine%2Bdiente%2Bzur%2BNachrichten%25C3%25BCbertragung%2Bwahlweise%2Bmit%2Blateinischen%2Boder%2Bkyrillischen%26num%3D100%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG>

   Teletypes showed up in Russian radio vans and you'll see a few photos 
of the radio vans at:
<http://www.armyradio.com/arsc/customer/pages.php?pageurl=/publish/Articles/William_Howard_Russian/73-Present_Base_Fixed_Station_Radios.htm>

   George Hutchison told me that many Model 37 teletypes were bought by 
Russia -  the Model 37 is an ASCII machine that will print lower-case, 
and the Russians fitted them with Cyrillic type blocks.

Dave Ross    N7EPI



On 8/6/2010 12:57 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> Just curious and can't seem to find anything on the web
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> -pete
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