[GreenKeys] M28 Braille page printer - Ray Morrison

[Nick England]

I have a five-level Model 28 typing unit (LP serial 0013) that came with a
short note on its background. I got it from the estate of Bill Bauer in
Louisville who typed the note -
"This LP is the one Ray Morrison, W9GRW set up for the braille machine for
Thomas Leland Lutes K4ZBC"
The rest of the note is about it being returned in 1981 to Bill and further
travel/modifications from there.

I found some info on line about Morrison developing a braille tape printer,
but nothing about a page printer. I don't understand how such a thing would
work. I haven't tried out the typing unit yet, but at a glance it doesn't
*look* any different. One thing is that the type box has the pallets
arranged in numerical order rather than Baudot order. Would this mean that
the machine could handle part of the Braille character set somehow?

I found an article by Ray Morrison in RTTY Journal about Braille TTY but it
says the "monitor" typing unit is an eight-level printer.

(p.s. Jim Haynes' memoirs include visits to Ray Morrison's QTH)
https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Chad_is_Our_Most_Important_Product:_An_Engineer%27s_Memory_of_Teletype_Corporation

best regards,
Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com
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