[GreenKeys] Model 16(?) etc.

[Jim Haynes]

I was just remembering that there was a modified Model 26 machine used
back in the late 1930s when Bell Labs built a relay calculator to do
complex number calculations.  They could easily rearrange the type
pallets in the printer to get the numbers and alphas into a binary
sequence, or a binary-coded-decimal sequence.  They used a funny keyboard
on that machine too.

I never understood why they did that - considering how many relays were
in the calculator it would take only a few more to encode the calculator
output into Baudot.



jhhaynes at earthlink dot net