[GreenKeys] RPE28 Reperforator

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Re: "same domed cover for use with the M19. Later the M14 was mounted  on a 
shelf above the TD."
 
  I  hear  of  'domed' covers... please a link  to  or a photo of please?   
 
 
 the   unit that  sits over the 14 TD  on the  shelf... I  have one of 
these  shelves  and I  understand   that  concept!
 
Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/15/2013 7:44:15 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
duncanancy at earthlink.net writes:



"Real teletypewriter operators don't need the message  printed on the tape, 
they can read the hole patterns!"

Roy,

I  assume you are talking about the "Single Magnet" reperforator (Bulletin 
147).  


It only perforates the tape, there is no typing.  The typing  function was 
probably not considered necessary for the designed application  (message 
relay/storage) and it simplified the design considerably.  This  was probably 
the first serial reperforator that Teletype Corp made.  The  "Single Magnet" 
name was to differentiate between the earlier, multiple magnet  units, that 
were multiplexed using parallel transmissions.

I have also  seen a picture of the more "Standard" M14 type basket typing 
reperforator  mounted in the same domed cover  for use with the M19.  Later 
the  M14 was mounted on a shelf above the TD.

I have never seen or heard of  anything that would read a tape and then 
type on it.  If you needed a  typed copy of a tape, you just put it into the TD 
and had it type out on a  printer.  Otherwise, you just read the hole 
patterns.  In the Army,  all the TTY operators learned how to read the tapes. (As 
a TTY repairman, I  only learned a few of the patterns, such as RY, LTRS, 
Figs, CR, LF,  etc.)

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