[GreenKeys] T-63 Teleprinter -DDR

[Pete Lancashire]

$259 for shipping doesn't sound bad at all .. was that door-to-door ?

I've been looking for the ex-soviet version of a Tektronix oscilloscope
that would weight much less and twice have been quoted over $300.

-pete

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Duncan Brown <duncanancy at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> 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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