[GreenKeys] Printing punched tape on my model 15 is FIXED!!!

[Ralph Mowery]

Guess that it is what is required by the place you work.

As a ham, we usually sent a CR CR LF LTRS.

Being a radio circuit, sometimes the first CR could be missed.  This gives two chances for it .  Then the others give time for the older machines to get back to the left side.  Some machines automatically do a LF after receiving a CR.  Waste of paper for those that did,but that is the recievers problem.  Some of the computers do not do much or anything at the end of the line and just depend on the reciever to do it all.

I wrote a program to work on an old 8080 computer and could set it several ways.  The normal way was for it to send two CRs LF LTRS at the end of the line when I hit a key that repersented the end of the line.  think it was the ENTER key on the ASCII keyboard..  It was also set that if I sent more than 65 characters in a row it would automatically wait for the next space and do an end of line sequence.  If it went to 72 characters,it would autoamtically do the end of line sequence.  I could enter a combination of keys  on the ASCII keyboard and it would let me send all that I wanted to and I had to manually enter all the CRs and LF and LTRS .   It would also send an automatic FIGs when I hit the number keys after any space.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill 
  To: Derek Cohn/WB0TUA 
  Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:56 AM
  Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Printing punched tape on my model 15 is FIXED!!!


  Hi all,
  Interesting about the CR-LF-LTRS. In the Navy we always used CR-CR-LF. 
  The two CR would give the printer a chance to return home before 
  printing the next letter.
  I worked for Western Union in Phoenix for awhile and they REQUIRED only 
  CR-LF. I kept getting in trouble with them because I applied my Navy 
  training and always (unless I thought about it) used CR-CR-LF. Trouble 
  was, when I "thought" about it, I would loose my typing speed and make 
  more errors than they wanted.