[GreenKeys] Windtalkers TTY

Wed, 3 Jul 2002 18:13:47 -0500

The first TT-4 from Kleinschmidt was manufactured in 1950, just for the
record. Tom
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From: "Don Robert House" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 10:53 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re: [GreenKeys] Windtalkers TTY


> >Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:22:21 -0700
> >To: <[email protected]>
> >From: Don Robert House <[email protected]>
> >Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Windtalkers TTY
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> >>Anyone recognize this model (eBay link
> >>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1546122944 ). Hard to
> >>make it out in the picture and the TM number means nothing to me. Don't
know
> >>a thing about it but figure someone here has to! An evil friend pointed
it
> >>out to me, he KNOWS I'm trying to kick the eBay habit!
> >
> >
> >It looks like a Kleinschmidt TT-4 type machine, which was not WWII
> >vintage.  The Army used Model 15s in chests during WWII.  TG-7 not
> >TT-4 which was Vienam vintage.  The number on ebaY is the number of
> >the Technical Manual: TM 11-5815-206-12
> >
> >Windtalkers is taking a lot of flak for gross inaccuracies.  This is
> >just one of the minor ones.
> >Basically a bad movie.  You can see the real stuff and talk with a
> >genuine codetalker at the Computer Museum of America, 640 C Street,
> >San Diego, CA   10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.  Most of
> >the code talker display was arranged for through Warren Brader, good
> >man that he is.
> >
> Don
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