[GreenKeys] Fwd: Re: FTGH Mite keyboard

[Duncan Brown]

Nick,

Your thoughts that the keyboard might be for a MDS data entry system 
makes some sense,  except for the fact that this 3-row keyboard is 
definitely designed for 5-bit use!

With the "HERE IS" button, it was probably going to be used in a 
TWX/TELEX system.

Have fun,

Duncan
K2OEQ

PS: I haven't been on RTTY recently because my TT-98 bound up and I have 
it all apart trying to see what the problem is.


On 04-Nov-20 07:53, Nick England wrote:
> Putting on my deerstalker cap -
> The manufacturer was Colorado Instruments, which became part of Mohawk 
> Data Sciences in 1971, hence the MDS on the ID tag. Mohawk built data 
> entry systems to replace keypunches (e.g. key-to-tape).
> I'll go out on a limb here and hypothesize that this "MITE" label 
> might mean something like Mohawk Integrated Tape Entry......
>
>
> Colorado evidently built custom keyboards for data entry systems
> From an earlier industry directory
> Colorado Instruments, Inc., Garden Office Center,
> Broomfield, Colo. 80020 / 303-466-7333 / *C 65
> Digital data acquisition systems (special purpose,
> designed to meet customer requirements)
> and computer data entry keyboards
> (C-Dek) / S 25 / E 1961
>
> Colorado had several patents for keyboards - e.g.
> https://patents.google.com/patent/US3751612A/en
>
> Nick England K4NYW
> www.navy-radio.com <http://www.navy-radio.com>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:13 PM Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net 
> <mailto:ranickel at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     On 11/3/2020 9:05 PM, Duncan Brown wrote:
>     > MITE was alive & making electronic portable terminals in the early
>     > 1970s. One was the "Model 150" and there were mentions of it in
>     > Computerworld in 1972-73.
>
>     Sometime in the mid-70s we acquired a couple of MITE printers (RO
>     type)
>     from a source that a co-worker knew when they both worked at Courier
>     Terminal Systems in Phoenix. I think they used some kind of parallel
>     interface that was integrated with the terminal logic and turned
>     out to
>     be too much trouble to mess with for the purpose we had, which was
>     printing test results in the factory.     All I remember is they were
>     squatty and HEAVY!
>
>     Some good pics of the AN/UGC-41 here:
>     http://www.decadecounter.com/vta/articleview.php?item=128
>
>     73, Bob W9RAN
>
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