[GreenKeys] Kleinschmidt advertisements

[Duncan Brown]

Don,

Both ads ("Air Lift' & "Tank Tactics") specifically mention printing.   
And they imply that the product is in use by the US military.  Of 
course, some of this may have been typical marketing exaggerations.

I agree, 750 wpm printing, even on tape, seems very fast for the time.

I wonder who KLI was advertising TO?  Maybe KLI was thinking of getting 
into commercial products and they were trying to show their military 
experience.  There was a commercial version of the TT-98, known as the 
"Model 150", but I don't know if they ever sold any.

Duncan




On 31-Aug-12 22:26, Don Robert House wrote:
> The ad mentions that the unit punches, which is not difficult to reach
> high speeds.  The BRPE easily punched 1050 wpm and the DRPE
> punched up to 2000 wpm.  Printing the characters on the tape is a
> whole different story in 1959.  Reading punched tape fast again was
> done by several Teletype products and other manufacturers but I
> would have to see a fifties machine print characters at 750 wpm to
> believe it.
>
> Don
> K9TTY
>
>
> On 31 Aug 2012, at 12:30 PM, Duncan Brown wrote:
>
>
> I have just come across some full-page advertisements for Kleinschmidt
> equipment in issues of "Electronic Industries" magazine for 1958-59. I
> don't have all the issues of this time period, but of the ones I have,
> every issue has an ad, although there are only six different
> advertisements used.
>
> Since Kleinschmidt Labratories Inc (KLI) mainly produced equipment for
> the military, you don't normally see advertisements for them, so I have
> scanned them to make them available to everyone.
>
> Some of the photos in the ads look like real installations (the
> AN/FGC-30 picture is the same one used in the KLI 1970 catalog), but
> others were probably staged for advertising purposes.
>
> The most questionable one is the 750 wpm printing reperf ("Tank Tactics"
> & "Air Lift")  This seems to be the same unit we discussed about a year
> ago.  We can definitely say that it is a KLI machine now, but 750 wpm
> seems high for field operations in 1959. No one seems to know anything
> about this unit, so it was probably a dummy or prototype to see if
> anyone was interested in it.
>
> You can see the scans at
> http://www.rattrig.com/photo_gallery/photo_gallery.htm (scroll down to
> the bottom of the page).  Take a look at the rest of the website to see
> how the US Signal Corps did radio teletype (RATT) in the 1950s through
> the 1980s.  If you are looking for manuals for KLI machines and/or
> radios used in these systems, see the Manuals section of the website.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Duncan, K2OEQ
> USASA 31J
>
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