[GreenKeys] strangest keyboard?

[dmm at lemur.com]

Well, "strangest" is a matter of opinion, but this is certainly
an unusual one:  the Brewer Keyboard, for use with the Teletypesetter
Perforator.

The TTS perforator has a QWERTY keyboard, as one would expect from
a product developed by Morkrum-Kleinschmidt.  But the ultimate
purpose of the TTS is to drive a Linotype (or Intertype) linecaster,
and QWERTY is not what a Linotype operator would expect.  The
Linotype has a 90 key keyboard (15 columns by 6 rows, in slanting rows)
in an ETAOIN arrangement.

The Brewer keyboard was a solenoid-based unit which fit over a
TTS perforator keyboard and provided an ETAOIN keyboard to the
operator.

It was not a commercial success.

In any case, I've run across the manual for it, and scanned it.
Here it is:

http://www.archive.org/details/ITUBrewerKeyboardManualNo2KL179

Regards,
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