[GreenKeys] Baudot Generator

Duncan Brown duncanancy at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 25 14:33:42 EDT 2015


The  AWA museum has something like that, but it is in storage and I 
haven't seen it in a few years. I don't remember who the manufacturer 
was.  There  were probably multiple companies making 5/8 bit test sets 
in the 1970-80s.

Have fun,

Duncan
K2OEQ


On 24-Mar-15 23:28, Gil Smith wrote:
> Hi Gary:
>
> Well, I don't know anything about that particular piece of gear, but I 
> am sending it to my greenkeys teletype email list to see if anyone has 
> an idea.
>
> Folks, please reply-all as Gary is not on the gk list.  Gee Gary, 
> maybe you want to join?
>
> thx,  gil
>
>
> gil smith, AF7EZ
> greenkeys moderator
> gil at baudot.net <mailto:gil at baudot.net>
>
>
>     -------- Original Message --------
>     Subject: Baudot Generator
>     From: GBSPTOP at aol.com <mailto:GBSPTOP at aol.com>
>     Date: Tue, March 17, 2015 7:05 am
>     To: gil at baudot.net <mailto:gil at baudot.net>
>
>     *This is a long shot question but thought*
>     *I would ask anyhow.*
>     **
>     *When I worked at Hickok in the late 70's*
>     *and maybe early 1980's we worked on*
>     *a government project for the US Air Force / Military.*
>     **
>     *It was a generator that could be out*
>     *Baudot & TTY codes and I think it was used*
>     *to service teletypes?. It was all digital*
>     *logic and was a piece of equipment*
>     *about 20 inches wide and 7-8 inches high.*
>     *It had many dials and knobs plus a thumb wheel*
>     *selector switch.*
>     **
>     *Hickok was the contractor and I think they made*
>     *about 100 of them. It was typical Navy gray color.*
>     *I would like to find one as I worked on that project*
>     *for 1+ year while I was at Hickok (Cleveland, Ohio)*
>     **
>     *Have you every seen any test equipment like that ?*
>     **
>     *Regards - Gary Schneider*
>
>
>
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