[GreenKeys] T-63 Teleprinter -DDR

Fri Oct 9 21:17:42 EDT 2015

Duncan! I  agree... it is  totally  cool  with the  multi alphas..  and the 
shipping considering welght/ distance  traveled  not  bad!  was it crated?

Heh   one time  we  paid  4  grand in  shipping  for  some stuff  for 
Ohio.... but.... the stuff  was  so  cheap  and the movers did ALL  the  work   
and everything was blanket wrapped  and hand delivered  in front of me  at my 
feet......  correct...you have to evaluate it as    the  cost  of the item 
being  an aggregate of the purchase and  the shipping... and ... if it makes 
 sense? go  for it!

Are  you  guys  gonna lend it to the AWA  tty   display?

did  it have the 50  hz  motor?  how are  you  dealing  with the speed 
issue?

Ed#

In a message dated 10/9/2015 6:08:13 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
duncanancy at earthlink.net writes:

It was  one of those deals where the shipping was more than the item price. 
 The  price was $175 and the shipping was $259.  So you have to look at the 
 total price to decide if it is worth it.  Two of us went in on it and it  
is a unique and rare item, so we decided it was worth  it.

Duncan
K2OEQ 

On 09-Oct-15 20:59, _COURYHOUSE at aol.com_ (mailto:COURYHOUSE at aol.com)  wrote:

just  curious as to what the  freight  was on it?
Glad it arrived  well! always a exercise in hiding your   breath  when this 
stuff is  shipped!

In a message dated 10/9/2015 5:54:36 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, 
_duncanancy at earthlink.net_ (mailto:duncanancy at earthlink.net)   writes:

Jeff's comments on his Lorenz Lo15 spurred me to show what I  have been 
working on.

Thanks to Ed# for alerting us to the East  German T-63.  One of my 
friends and I bought it and it arrived  here from Slovakia in reasonable 
shape. It is unique in that it has  three levels of "shift": Latin 
characters, Cyrillic characters and  Figures.  The "Blank" character 
[00000] shifts to Cyrillic.   This model is a clone of the Siemens T-37 
and was manufactured in East  Germany for the Soviets from the early 
1950s up into the 1980s.   The T-63 was the model used in the original 
Washington-Moscow Hotline  to receive the Russian's messages. (US 
messages were sent from a  M28ASR.)

The T63 includes a reperf and the unit also came with a  tape reader and 
a Telex box with loop supply (40 ma, with series  coils).

The code for the Cyrillic characters was assigned with  similar Latin 
sounding characters having the same code.  eg, if  you send [11111] 
[01010] it prints "R"
if you send [00000] [01010] it prints "P"
See the enclosed  printout. The only difference between the data sent to 
the two lines  is that a [00000] was sent between them.

I've been cleaning it up  and lubricating it and it runs pretty well with 
a continuous stream of  data (like from a tape or MMTTY).  But I often 
get the wrong  character if I just type one character at a time.  
Apparently  something not quite right in the selector mechanism, which is 
pretty  compact.  I have manuals for the Siemens T-37 (thanks, Henning),  
but they are in German and I can't read it. I thought I could figure  
things out from the diagrams, but so far, they haven't been much  help.  
So I'm still digging into it.

Have  fun,

Duncan
K2OEQ

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