[GreenKeys] Design at Teletype

[Nick England]

FWIW- Example of teletypesetter output
http://www.navy-radio.com/manuals/tty/ts/teletypesetter-m20-AP-sample.pdf

Nick


On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 2:18 PM Ethan Blanton <elb at kb8ojh.net> wrote:

> (I know I'm resurrecting a thread that's almost one year old, but I
>  had this document on my to-read list, and I just got to it.)
>
> Jim Haynes wrote:
> > Attached is the preface to the designer's handbook.
>
> What I want to know is ... what did they use to typeset this document?
> It is proportional-spaced and full justified, yet appears to show
> marks of having been input via something like a keyboard (missing
> spaces and other keyboard-like typographical errors, the only emphasis
> in use are all caps and underlining, etc.).  Is this the sort of
> document that a typesetting Teletype with a 6-bit code could produce?
> 1956 is too early for it to have been computer typeset, yet it does
> not look (to my untrained eye) like a Linotype or even hand-assembled
> metal type output.  It's possible that artifacts of scanning led me to
> that conclusion, however.
>
> Does anyone have a guess as to how this document was produced?  Or
> maybe it was _re_produced later with a computerized process, and
> simply retained its 1956 date?
>
> Ethan
>
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Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com
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