[GreenKeys] M28 Braille page printer - Ray Morrison

[Nick]

Cool !!!

Can you post a few pics ?

The other Nick - N0NCQ



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From: Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com>
Date: 1/8/19 3:47 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: Greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [GreenKeys] M28 Braille page printer - Ray Morrison

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<http://www.navy-radio.com>
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