[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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>



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