[GreenKeys] RTTY on the Space Shuttle!

[Duncan Brown]

David,

Thanks for the info.  I didn't realize Telex continued that long.

Have fun,

Duncan
K2OEQ


On 12/15/2024 12:27 PM, David Waters wrote:
> Mechanical teleprinters were in commercial use in the UK and Europe 
> until the Telex Networks over here were finally shut down in 2008.
>
> best regards
>
> David
>
>
> On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 at 15:52, Duncan Brown <duncanancy at earthlink.net> 
> wrote:
>
>     Did you know that a teleprinter flew on the space shuttle for
>     almost 20 years?  Not a "teletype", but originally a Kleinschmidt
>     design.
>
>     In the late 1960, Kleinschmidt Labs developed the AN/UGC-74 for
>     the US Army, but then the program was canceled. (I saw the
>     non-tactical version of it (AN/FGC-80) at the US Signal Corps
>     School in Ft Gordon in 1966.)  When the Army finally ordered the
>     AN/UGC-74, KLI was out of the TTY business and the contract went
>     to others.
>
>     In 1980-81, a teleprinter was needed for the Space Shuttle and
>     developed in 7 months from the UGC-74 design.
>
>     Curious Mark just got one, see
>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HihKMIVnbs
>
>     For more details, see
>     https://www.righto.com/2024/08/space-shuttle-interim-teleprinter.html
>
>     This means that mechanical teleprinters were in use for over 100
>     years! (1880s to 1991)
>
>     73 & have fun,
>
>     Duncan Brown, K2OEQ
>     USASA    31J30
>
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>      Communication Technologies Museum
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>
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