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 <[email protected]> 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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