[GreenKeys] Number of teleprinters built

[Nico de Jong]

Hi
I'm sorry I wrote "small ones". That's probably because I've never seen one "life", and I had no data on numbers produced.
As you wrote, most was for domestic markeds, and being in Europe, it's not surprising that I never saw one.

Creed was obviously bit too, but again, I've never seen one "in the fles"

Keep those comments coming, it's very enlightening

Nico
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  Hi Nico:

  Thanks for the note. I noted your reference to Kleinscmidt as being one of
  the "small" manufacturers of teletype equipments. I was surprised to hear that.
  Really, that is a serious understatement!

  Actually, Kleinschmidt was the # 2 maker in the US and their operation
  was huge. 98% of their teletype production was for the US military services.
  Some of their machines went to commerical services, such as the miltary
  TT-98/FG which was known commercially as the Model 150. Check with
  Tom Kleinschmidt on the Greenkeys list for more histories. He is the great
  grandson of Edward Kleinschmidt, the founder of the Kleinschmidt Labs.

  Also, not sure if you are aware, but Kleinschmdt also made other things
  besides teletype equipment: Radio telescopes for most observatories,
  Telegraph equipment, Telephones, Terminal equipments - much of this
  for the US commercial markets (as well as some for the US miltary).
  Many Kleinschmidt designs were exported under license overseas to Siemens,
  Lorenz, and others, et al, (as was Teletype Corp designs).

  Kleinschmidt today is still in business. No longer making teletype gear, since
  this technology is now a legacy system (obsolete), but still heavily involved
  in computerized networks architectures, switching systems, and data
  processing development and manufacture.

  In 1968, Kleinschmidt merged with Smith Corona Marchant, a US business
  machines maker. This produced more combined technologies with Kleinschmidt
  today being the surviving entity of these mergers. Kleinschmidt teletype
  designs after 1968 continued to be farmed out on behalf of the US miltary
  to Burroughs, Singer, NCR and some other large companies who still made
  teletype machines for the miltary during the Vietnam war era. 

  Kleinschmidt was once part of the Teletype Corp (Morkrum). It began
  producing teletypewriters for the US military in 1949 with the TT-4A being
  the first production model. Many dozens of variants of machines were
  produced from that time onward thru the computer and data eras.......

  Regards,

  Dave