[GreenKeys] Kleinschmidt advertisements

[Don Robert House]

The ad mentions that the unit punches, which is not difficult to reach
high speeds.  The BRPE easily punched 1050 wpm and the DRPE
punched up to 2000 wpm.  Printing the characters on the tape is a
whole different story in 1959.  Reading punched tape fast again was
done by several Teletype products and other manufacturers but I
would have to see a fifties machine print characters at 750 wpm to
believe it.

Don
K9TTY


On 31 Aug 2012, at 12:30 PM, Duncan Brown wrote:


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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