[GreenKeys] Navy abandons M28 compatibility

[Jim Pruitt]

1850's?  I did not know they used Teletype machines before the civil war. 
The wiki I just looked at said Teletype corp started as Morkum in 1902.

Sorry,  just had to rib you about the typo.

Jim Pruitt



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick England" <navy.radio at gmail.com>
To: "Greenkeys" <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:53 AM
Subject: [GreenKeys] Navy abandons M28 compatibility


> The U.S. Navy is changing the format of messages to include lower case
> characters.
>
> http://www.navytimes.com/article/20130606/NEWS04/306060010/ALL-CAPS-MESSAGES-no-more
>
> "The Navy and other services have a long history with all-caps
> messages. Early teletype machines, which the military started using in
> the 1850s, were made up of only three rows of keys and did not allow
> for lowercase letters."