[GreenKeys] AN/fgc-80 used to have one did not know what it was at the time

[Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys]

Duncan - Yes please send  more info on this to me  off  list.
 
The one thing I remember most about it  was the  fact it had  a rotating  
drum  like a data products line printer did. 
 
I  have now  idea  how reliable it was, but  the  concept embodied in it's 
versatility   seems  cutting  edge....
wish I had  kept it!!!   ED#
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/28/2014 9:10:44 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
duncanancy at earthlink.net writes:

Ed,

AN/FGC-80 was Kleinschmidt Labs electronic TTY from  c1966. It was mostly 
electronic and could do 5-bit Baudot/Murray and also  8-bit ASCII.  I saw 
one in the Signal Corp TTY school in late 1966,  they had just gotten one 
in, but had not started teaching it  yet.

At some point Kleinschmidt became a division of Smith Corona  Marchant 
(SCM).  KLI was the major supplier of TTY equipment to the  Army & Air 
Force c1950-1980.

I'll send you (& anyone else  interested) some info on the AN/FGC-80 
directly (files too big for  Greenkeys)

Duncan
K2OEQ

On 28-Dec-14 00:54, Ed Sharpe  Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys wrote:
> AN/fgc-80 used to have   one  did not know what it was at the time..
> Back in 79  when  I  started   computer business...
> weird  thing...   like a terminal but a drum printer mech like  a line  
> printer.
> the one I had  I  do not remember it   with mil numbers  on it   and  
> it had a weird  connector on it  ...funny  now  eons later   I  know  
> what the  thing was or  one similar to  it.
> wish I had managed to hang onto it ...   the one i had  said  SCM   
> like smith corona  on  it????   any other info!?
> only had the one never saw  another   until now  with this manual I 
>  had   from????  and this ad......any  other history ????  anyone used 
> one or has one now?
> Ed# www.smecc.org  <http://www.smecc.org>
> here is a graphic for it  from a ad  on the bay
>
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