[GreenKeys] early automatic Morse to Baudot equipment?

[Jim Haynes]

On Thu, 5 Sep 2019, Harold Hallikainen wrote:
> last commercial Morse message over radio was sent on July 12, 1999. It's
> amazing it lasted this long with teleprinters being around for since 1910
> or 1920 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter ).
>
One reason it lasted a long time was that teleprinters were expensive and
needed skilled maintenance.  Especially in the 1910-1920 time frame
operators were a lot cheaper than teleprinters.  Message volume had to
reach a certain level before a teleprinter was considered to be worth
its cost.  Of course by the 1990s operators were a lot more costly than
teleprinters, but still were more resilient.  And could do other kinds
of work when message volume did not demand their services.