[GreenKeys] Windtalkers TTY

Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:57:40 -0700

Thanks Tom
I still say the machine is not appropriate for a WWII movie!!!
Don

At 6:13 PM -0500 7/3/02, Tom Kleinschmidt wrote:
>The first TT-4 from Kleinschmidt was manufactured in 1950, just for the
>record. Tom
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Don Robert House" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>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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