[GreenKeys] MITE manual on line

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I would love to get a MITE.   Thanks  for scanning the  manual Jim!   We 
can one in a  disaster preparedness  truck  with com shelter on the back  
along with a Collins  HF airborne   transmitter that was ground mounted in the 
truck. Neat truck but when you want  out  with the DP people with it  meant  
you were going to pick up  pilot pieces.....  Radio Maint  always  rode 
along.
 
There  some Deaf and hard of hearing that had MITES as they were  
'portable'. but not a lot as they were expensive  ...
 
Ed Sharpe Archaist for SMECC
 
 
In a message dated 3/19/2014 8:01:56 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:

On Wed,  19 Mar 2014, Don Robert House wrote:

> The manual on paper is  heavier than the MITE.
>
Not quite, but I was reading Bernard  Howard's article on the MITE in
W.U. Technical Review and he tells it  weighs 12 pounds.  I think it's
more like 30, at least in the military  case.

The MITE thing continues to intrigue me.  The only thing I  know about
Bernard Howard is the little bio that accompanies his WUTR  article.
Which says he attended a couple of colleges and then bounced  around the
aerospace industry a bit inventing things, some of them  classified.
And then all of a sudden there is this company making a  teleprinter,
with Howard being apparently the sole inventor.  Doesn't  say how long
it was under development, but the thing is easily as  complicated as a
Model 28, which was in development for many years by a  large crew of
people.  But then I don't have a mind for intricate  mechanical things,
so I don't know how a machine like the 28 or the MITE  ever gets developed.
The company had not made anything like that before,  and after the 
teleprinter business was over they went back to making  sewing machines.

Presumably the same Bernard Howard received a patent  in 1978 for a course
indicator for boats, and was living in New Haven, CT  at the time.  (It's
harder to search patents older than 1976)

A  type cylinder very similar to the one used in MITE printers was used
in the  early version of the UGC-129 teleprinter made by Tracor.  But in
that  printer all the positioning was controlled by stepper motors, so  the
intricate mechanical stuff was all replaced by microcode.  And the  later
version of UGC-129 replaced the type cylinder with a dot matrix print  
head.

An article published by Walter Winchell and Jack Anderson  alleges that
MITE Corp. made payments to the late Senator Dodd of  Connecticut, who
attempted to pull strings at DOD on behalf of MITE.   He tried and failed
to get the Navy to give MITE a no-bid contract.   They had to settle for a
competitive bid at a much lower  price.


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