[GreenKeys] Kleinschmidt advertisements

[John Nagle]

On 8/31/2012 12:38 PM, greenkeys-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> 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.

  Tally made 120 character per second tape punches.

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/tally/SO_P-120_P-120_InstrMan_Nov66.pdf

  Oki actually built a 4000 char/minute tape punch in 1958.
It punched 10 characters at once.  This was a variant on an
approach used for punching punched cards all at once.

http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/device/paper/0031.html

  All these were computer peripherals, though.  They wouldn't
be see in a field comm station of the period.

				John Nagle