[GreenKeys] German WW2 Crypto Printer

[Jim Haynes]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, bstrang at iac.net wrote:

> Relevance for this group is that the machine looks a lot like a Model 
14 keyboard tape printer.  There is a picture at this link:
>
> http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36401663
>
It should look like an ordinary Model 14 printer.  Lorenz made those
under license from Teletype Corp.  Input and output to the Lorenz
crypto machine was ordinary 5-level code, so any standard teleprinter
could handle it.  What's not clear to me from the writeup is whether
this is a generic Lorenz tape printer, or whether it was actually used
by Germany in connection with the Lorenz crypto equipment.  It may have
typebars for all code combinations, as a 14 typing reperforator does,
so that the usually non-printing ones can be seen.