[GreenKeys] Bell vs apostrophe - Baudot/ITA2 on Model 14 machines

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Mon Sep 10 00:19:06 EDT 2012


  A Baudot code question:

  I have a Model 15, and its code matches that in the
Wikipedia article for USTTY (except that the "pound"
system is a British pound, not a #).  FIGS-S is BELL,
and FIGS-J is ' (apostrophe).

  I have two WU 2B Model 14 machines.  On them,
FIGS-S is ' (apostrophe) and FIGS-J is BELL.
Keyboards and printers all match.  FIGS-J rings the bell.
That's ITA2.  Here are pictures:

http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,37371.0.html

  This last seems weird.  These are early Model
14 machines, with the Remington keys, not green keys.
That dates them from the 1920s.  I thought ITA2
came after USTTY, but apparently not always.

  The Model 14 manual, 1931 edition,
(http://www.aetherltd.com/public/model14manuals/126_Model14_Descr_Dec31.pdf)
has a code table
on page 5.  It shows FIGS-J as ' (apostrophe)
and FIGS-S as BELL. That's USTTY.  But the manual
does say, on page 17, that some machines operate
the bell on FIGS-J, and others on FIGS-S.

			John Nagle




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