[GreenKeys] Soviet teletype 1942??

[Duncan Brown]

The TTY used in the hot-line was an East German RFT T-63. We have one at 
the AWA Museum.  It is a TELEX unit and its TELEX ID shows it was in use 
after the Soviet breakup in 1991.

At the start of WWII, there was a Siemens plant producing model T-37s 
teleprinters in Berlin. During the war, it was moved to mountains in 
southeastern Germany to get away from the bombing of Berlin. After the 
war was over, the plant was in the Soviet sector and it resumed 
production as a “VEB” = “People's Owned Company”. It was part of the RFT 
group, which stood for “Rundfunk und Fernsehtechnik”, translated loosely 
as “Radio & Image Technology.” After German Reunification, the company 
continued production as TELCO GmbH.

RFT continued to manufacture the Siemens T-37 in East Germany under 
their name as the T-51 until early 1980s. RFT made a version of the T-51 
with the Cyrillic alphabet, which was used internally in the USSR. But 
the Soviets also needed a teleprinter for their eastern European 
satellites that could communicate with both the Latin and Cyrillic 
alphabets. This was the T-63 that is seen in the Washington-Moscow 
hotline pictures. It was the first mechanical teleprinter that could 
type in two different alphabets and was produced from the early 1950s 
into the 1980s.

The Soviets also used Cyrillic versions of the Teletype Corp. model 14 & 15.

I have pictures of other Cyrillic teleprinters, but don't know who made 
them.

Duncan

K2OEQ


On 6/21/2019 19:13, Nick England wrote:
> I am currently reading “Stalingrad”, a novel by Vasily Grossman , a 
> war correspondent who was there during the battle. He mentions 
> teleprinters and teleprinter operators at the Front HQ. what machines 
> would the Soviets have had in 1942?
> Just Idle Curiosity.
> Nick
>
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