[GreenKeys] Code Permutation Tape Printer

[Duncan Brown]

The unit on Ebay belongs in a Museum, but for the Antique _Wireless_ 
Museum - it is a strech (unless you want to donate it)

The unit may well be a prototype that never made it into production, or 
it may have been made by someone other than Teletype Corp.  The person 
(Slayton?) who wrote the description didn't seem to know much about the 
piece of equipment.

Here is another "Code Permutation Tape Printer" in the Teletype Corp 
Museum Books

Duncan

On 28-Nov-13 00:20, John Nagle wrote:
> The machine on eBay shows some of the same parts missing as the 
> drawing in the museum book. This may be the exact machine shown. It 
> has some similarities to the early Morkrum Model 11 tape printer, 
> which was a typewheel machine, but the selector mechanism is 
> completely different. The keyboard is built out of early Model 14 era 
> parts, but the keyboard shaft, cams, clutch, and gear are missing. 
> This may have been a prototype to test a new printing mechanism, and 
> so the keyboard mechanism was never fully built up. It's a six-bit 
> machine with no shifts. Strange character set; no "1", no shifts, and 
> no fractions, so it's not a 6-bit stock ticker machine or a 
> Teletypesetter machine. It's hard to see exactly how the selector 
> works, but the general idea was clearly that the typewheel rotates 
> until all 6 bits line up with the binary encoded disks, and then 
> something prints. I'm not sure if the typewheel stops for printing. 
> The six levers on the left at probably are supposed to be under the 
> T-shaped bail, rather than on top of it. It looks like an attempt to 
> make a small, low parts count tape printer with keyboard. I wonder if 
> it ever worked. Anybody want it? It's near me, and if the price 
> doesn't go up, I might buy it. John Nagle 
> ______________________________________________________________



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