[GreenKeys] Kleinschmidt advertisements

Duncan Brown duncanancy at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 31 13:30:07 EDT 2012


I have just come across some full-page advertisements for Kleinschmidt 
equipment in issues of "Electronic Industries" magazine for 1958-59. I 
don't have all the issues of this time period, but of the ones I have, 
every issue has an ad, although there are only six different 
advertisements used.

Since Kleinschmidt Labratories Inc (KLI) mainly produced equipment for 
the military, you don't normally see advertisements for them, so I have 
scanned them to make them available to everyone.

Some of the photos in the ads look like real installations (the 
AN/FGC-30 picture is the same one used in the KLI 1970 catalog), but 
others were probably staged for advertising purposes.

The most questionable one is the 750 wpm printing reperf ("Tank Tactics" 
& "Air Lift")  This seems to be the same unit we discussed about a year 
ago.  We can definitely say that it is a KLI machine now, but 750 wpm 
seems high for field operations in 1959. No one seems to know anything 
about this unit, so it was probably a dummy or prototype to see if 
anyone was interested in it.

You can see the scans at 
http://www.rattrig.com/photo_gallery/photo_gallery.htm (scroll down to 
the bottom of the page).  Take a look at the rest of the website to see 
how the US Signal Corps did radio teletype (RATT) in the 1950s through 
the 1980s.  If you are looking for manuals for KLI machines and/or 
radios used in these systems, see the Manuals section of the website.

Have fun,

Duncan, K2OEQ
USASA 31J



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