[GreenKeys] Black tape

[Duncan Brown]

Interesting to see all the comments stirred up by my black tape query. 
(Actually, the "Black" side of a comm center is the secured side - after 
the signal has been encrypted. The Red side is the clear text - before 
encryption.  So Red tape would be the real sensitive stuff!)

Apparently the black tape probably was used with the Teletype Corp M42 
and/or NC. (I'm not very familiar with those new machines.)


Gil - 7/8" tape was used in all the Kleinschmidt Laboratories Inc. 5-bit 
military machines (TT-76, AN/FGC-25, etc). They printed on the wide 
margin of the tape.  But all the KLI tape readers could also handle the 
narrower 11/16" tape and some of the later reperfs also.


Doug - Thanks for your info on the Florida voting problems! Very 
interesting reading - I hope some people leaned something from that 
exercise!!

Have fun,

Duncan
K2OEQ



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