[GreenKeys] MITE intro - FWIW

[Duncan Brown]

Roy,

I think the 12 pound weight was for the civilian version, without much 
of a case.  Western Union was looking for a smaller, lower cost unit to 
use instead of the M28. In the July 1957 WUTR, the WU president is 
quoted as saying "You will be particularly interested in knowing that 
Western Union, in addition to working closely with the Teleprinter 
Corporation's people in testing and pre-production engineering of the 
equipment, has an option to buy a substantial part of the stock of this 
new company."

  But for some reason the deal with WU fell through and Teleprinter 
decided to sell to the military.

Most of the ARTS article & pictures came from WUTR,  April, 1958 and was 
a reprint of a paper Bernard Howard gave at an IEE meeting in Feb 1958.  
The fact that this information appeared in the March/April '58 issue of 
ARTS Bulletin shows a very short leadtime. Also, there is at least one 
picture that is not in the WUTR and they seem to be of a better quality 
in the the ARTS Bulletin. Maybe W2EBZ worked for Teleprinter Corp? (his 
QTH in 1954 &1960 is listed as New York City)

have fun,

Duncan

On 20-Mar-14 20:58, Roy Morgan wrote:
>
> Nick,
>
> I’m confused.  I scanned the article to read that the MITE they are talking about weighs less than 12 pounds.
>
> The MITE’s I have weight a LOT more than that.
>
> Are/Were there more than one kind of MITE?
>
> Roy
>
> Roy Morgan
> RoyMorgan at alum.mit.edu
> K1LKY Since 1958
>
>


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