[GreenKeys] AN/fgc-80 used to have one did not know what it was at the time

[Dave F via GreenKeys]

The AN/UGC-74 was part of a still-born family of Kleinschmidt teletype  
equipment
designed for the Army in the mid-60s. It was called the "Forward Area  
TeleType or FATT.
 
The Army never ordered the FATT which was originally designed during the  
Viet War
to replace the old style, slower, electro-mechanical machines in use at the 
 time. The
Viet War was fought using 1950s vintage teletype gear......especially at  
the tactical
level.
 
In the early 80s, the Army relooked the FATT and decided they didn't need  
or want
it, because too much newer equipment was already being fielded, especially  
the
Model 40s and some other systems. The Army however did order the  AN/UGC-74
which was the printer part of the FATT system.
 
While the FATT (and UGC-74) was originally a KLI design, by the time the 
Army ordered the UGC-74 printer, KLI had largely gotten out of the teletype 
 biz and
so the design was sent over to another company (at the moment, the name  of
the "other" company escapes me; in any event, they made all of the  UGC-74A
models which we used in the mid and late 80s).
 
The UGC-74 in the Army was used to replace earlier model TT-4s, and  T-98s
in tactical units using shelters for teletype traffic, mostly CommCenters  
and
RATT. Most of these were set up for Baudot use in tactical  configurations
and they were intended to work with slower TT-76s (which provided tape 
capability). In the fixed-station, a few UGC-74s were used and these  were
set up for ASCII, mostly on the Y-side. When used in the fixed  station
environment, they were usually connected to a Model 40 at one end of  the
circuit and the UGC-74 at the other end with no tape send/receive  
capability.
 
Dave
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/28/2014 2:29:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:

I  remember seeing in the late 1950s a drum-type high speed printer in the
lab  at Teletype.  It had been made from the Signal Corps, believe it  was
FGC-36 or something like that.  But Teletype decided not to pursue  that
technology.  At the time it used thyratron tubes to drive the  print
hammers.  So I guess the SigC took their wishes to KL where it  did result
in a product.  And also the UGC-74, which I understand was  a KL design
but manufactured by others.

jhhaynes at earthlink dot  net
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