[GreenKeys] FTGH Mite keyboard

[w9ddd at tapr.org]

So on a 28 you could add a function bar for UC J with a switch wired in parallel with the UC S and be covered in either case.  Then would you want to suppress printing UC J printing or not?

I don't think I'm ambitious enough to do that on my 28.  I'm more inclined to not have the bell ring at all.  

John, W9DDD


> On Nov 2, 2020, at 4:26 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2020, Duncan Brown wrote:
>> There are a lot of variations in the upper case letters of 5-bit TTYs. But Western Electric was using upper case "S" for "BELL" in 1919 and all the US military machines I've seen use upper case "S" for BELL.  Somebody used upper case "J" for BELL, but I've never seen upper case "G" used for BELL.
> 
> S for Bell System and U.S. military and most other users.  J for Western
> Union.
> 
> The origin of this is that in the early days Associated Press decided
> they wanted two different bell signals, one to ring at the machine and
> the other to operate a contact to ring a remote bell or flash a light
> in an editor's office.  So that was done but eventually went away and
> for some reason W.U. and the rest of the world disagreed about which
> character should ring the bell.  A chart for International Telegraph
> Alphabet #2 shows J bell as standard and S bell as U.S. variant.
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