[GreenKeys] RPE28 Reperforator
Duncan Brown
duncanancy at earthlink.net
Sun Dec 15 12:26:26 EST 2013
The M19 was available with a (non-typing) reperforator that sat on a
small dolly under the TD:
Here is a companion picture of the reperf that I sent earlier today.
Duncan
K2OEQ
On 15-Dec-13 11:35, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> /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.)
>
> Have fun,
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