[GreenKeys] Teletypes in police stations... anyone done a definitive stud...

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

didn't NCIC also tie into a crime database at FBI or??? Ed# smec.org 

 
 
In a message dated 2/18/2013 1:23:47 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
teletypeparts at aol.com writes:

Again, while at WU, we had model 35 ASR's  at state police buildings in 
large cities.  It was called NCIC I  believe.  Nation Crime Information Center 
maybe.  Used to  contact a central hub or maybe another city.  
 
Wayne
 




-----Original  Message-----
From: Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
To:  COURYHOUSE <COURYHOUSE at aol.com>
Cc: greenkeys  <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, Feb 18, 2013 11:41  am
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Teletypes in police stations... anyone done a  
definitive stud...


There is a long history of teletypewriter use by police organizations. 
Recently photos of TTY equipment in old police operations have been 
 offered on ebay.com  One mention of police service in the Eastern U.S.
 is given in a paper "Modern Practices in Private Wire Telegraph Service"
 by R. E. Pierce of AT&T, AIEE Transactions, June 1931, p. 426.
 
 Circa 1960 Teletype had a switching system called TASP that I was told
 was marketed primarily to police departments.  Some patents describing
 this system are 2,625,601 (1953) and 3,251,929 (1966).  It's curious that
 Teletype offered such a system, since switching arrangements were usually
 considered to be on Bell Labs' turf.  (Or Western Union, for non-Bell
 users)  Teletype was allowed to do switching work for customers where
 it was felt there was no general Bell System market.  Therefore I assume
 TASP was marketed to police (and other agencies) that wanted ownership
 of the equipment rather than a leased service.
 
 When amateur RTTY first got started in the late 1940s the majority of
 Teletype machines available to amateurs were Model 12 page printers,
 and most of them seemed to come out of New York.  I remember reading
 somewhere that most of them had come out of the New York police 
 department.  The NYPD had replaced its tty machines out of necessity
 when Teletype quit making maintenance parts for them.
 
 
 
 
 jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
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