[GreenKeys] TTY Item on Etsy

[Duncan Brown]

Yes, this STA-M37 tape printer is based on the Teletype Corp M14.

But the Russians didn't "copy" it.  Teletype Corp. sold the rights to 
the M14 & M15 to many European companies in the 1920s -30s, including 
Lorenz.  These companies then made improvements to the Teletype Corp. 
designs, like adding tape perf and tape reading to these units.  This 
STA-M37 unit looks to have a TELEX answer-back module on it.

This machine has three characters on each type arm and can type in two 
different alphabets: Cyrillic ("PYC" shift key on right - pronounced 
"rus"), Latin ("_AT" shift key on right - pronounced "lat"), and then 
there is the figures shift key (on left) "UNO" (don't know how that is 
pronounced)

Looks like a nice unit and I'd buy it for the AWA Museum if it wasn't 
priced so high (especially the shipping).

Have fun,

Duncan
K2OEQ


On 12/19/2025 4:55 PM, Keith Lueck wrote:
> Yeah, looks like Cyrillic to me...
> Is there anything we made during the cold war that the Soviet Union 
> *didn't* copy...? ;-)
>
> On Friday, December 19, 2025 at 03:02:33 PM CST, Jim Cooper 
> <w2jc at optonline.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 19 Dec 2025 at 15:08, John Spigel wrote:
>
> > Not mine.. Just came across this on etsy. CTA-M67. Tape Printer? Looks
> > like new/refurb? and just out of the box.
> >
> > https://www.etsy.com/listing/1675892010
>
> Sure does look like a knock-off of Model 14 tape printer
> (as used for telegram tape) ...  notice the text on the
> manuals is Russian or similar?
>
>
>
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