[GreenKeys] T-63 Teleprinter -DDR

[Duncan Brown]

It was one of those deals where the shipping was more than the item 
price.  The price was $175 and the shipping was $259.  So you have to 
look at the total price to decide if it is worth it.  Two of us went in 
on it and it is a unique and rare item, so we decided it was worth it.

Duncan
K2OEQ

On 09-Oct-15 20:59, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> just  curious as to what the  freight  was on it?
> Glad it arrived  well! always a exercise in hiding your breath  when 
> this stuff is  shipped!
> In a message dated 10/9/2015 5:54:36 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, 
> duncanancy at earthlink.net writes:
>
>     Jeff's comments on his Lorenz Lo15 spurred me to show what I have
>     been
>     working on.
>
>     Thanks to Ed# for alerting us to the East German T-63. One of my
>     friends and I bought it and it arrived here from Slovakia in
>     reasonable
>     shape. It is unique in that it has three levels of "shift": Latin
>     characters, Cyrillic characters and Figures.  The "Blank" character
>     [00000] shifts to Cyrillic.  This model is a clone of the Siemens
>     T-37
>     and was manufactured in East Germany for the Soviets from the early
>     1950s up into the 1980s.  The T-63 was the model used in the original
>     Washington-Moscow Hotline to receive the Russian's messages. (US
>     messages were sent from a M28ASR.)
>
>     The T63 includes a reperf and the unit also came with a tape
>     reader and
>     a Telex box with loop supply (40 ma, with series coils).
>
>     The code for the Cyrillic characters was assigned with similar Latin
>     sounding characters having the same code.  eg, if you send [11111]
>     [01010] it prints "R"
>                                  if you send [00000] [01010] it prints "P"
>     See the enclosed printout. The only difference between the data
>     sent to
>     the two lines is that a [00000] was sent between them.
>
>     I've been cleaning it up and lubricating it and it runs pretty
>     well with
>     a continuous stream of data (like from a tape or MMTTY). But I often
>     get the wrong character if I just type one character at a time.
>     Apparently something not quite right in the selector mechanism,
>     which is
>     pretty compact.  I have manuals for the Siemens T-37 (thanks,
>     Henning),
>     but they are in German and I can't read it. I thought I could figure
>     things out from the diagrams, but so far, they haven't been much
>     help.
>     So I'm still digging into it.
>
>     Have fun,
>
>     Duncan
>     K2OEQ
>
>
>
>
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