[GreenKeys] [External] Re: Communist teleprinter

[Keith Lueck]

 Indeed.  The former eastern bloc countries are great sources of vacuum tubes, nixies, tunnel diodes, and even obsolete TTL chips.  I recently got some miniature Russian thyratrons to play with - they were apparently used in the horizontal deflection circuit of some old Russian TV's.  
...and no, I'm not a Commie.  ;-)
    On Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 05:39:02 PM CST, Jones, Douglas W <douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu> wrote:  
 
 From: steve bennett via GreenKeys [greenkeys at mailman.qth.net] -- Wednesday, November 10, 2021 4:17 PM

> Is this a test? I was kicked off of a groups.io mailing list for expressing my anti-communist opinion.

No, not a test.  There are plenty here who are fascinated by Soviet technology (or East German, in the case of the recent eBay posting).  They started with clones.  In the case of Teletypes, there was a pre-WWII license for a German clone that, postwar, was the basis of continued evolution in East Germany, where they added the ability to shift between Cyrilic and Roman fonts back in the electromechanical era.  The machine that showed up in that eBay posting is obviously a late product in that line, since it has the dual-font keyboard and whatnot but it uses dot-matrix technology and probably contains a microprocessor.

Curiosity about Soviet technology does not imply any particular political leaning!

        Doug Jones
        jones at cs.uiowa.edu
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