[GreenKeys] Comma on [J] (was Teletype Pallet Set Available)

eric epvgk at limpoc.com
Mon Jan 9 19:14:28 EST 2017


On 2017-01-09 15:00, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> FWIW the list in "Reference Data for Radio Engineers" 4th edition
> shows a comma on upper case N for Army, old Navy, Teletype A, British
> Standard, Western Union 101 and 102, and CCIT 2. In these codes upper
> case J is Bell for British Standard, WU 101,102 and CCIT 2
> 
>    Coma on upper case J is shown for: New U.S. Navy Standard, TWX
> (Teletype C) and Western Union 101-C and 102-C.
>    There is no apostrophe on
> New Navy Standard
> TWX C
> WU 101C and 102C
> CCIT 2
> American Cable and Radio
>    It would be interesting to know what code combination works the
> bell on this machine. If its upper case J the comma may be there
> because it would never be used anyway.
> 


Duncan and Richard --

Thanks for the interest! There are more type arrangements than I would
have suspected. This particular machine has bell on S, comma on J, and
also comma on N. It has an unused apostrophe on S, which never prints
since figs-S is bell and inhibits print. But it is there on the type 
pallet.
This machine also has "STOP" (ie, disable keyboard) on figs-H, and the H
pallet has an unused pounds-sterling symbol on its H pallet.

I don't know anything about this machine's provenance except that it 
once
belonged to a Northern California ham (K6VIT). There are no "AN/UGC" 
numbers
anywhere.  The typing unit's nameplate says "15-AA TYPING UNIT". There's 
a
random mysterious nameplate on the base that says only "PEX25LE".

It's been MFP'd with a paint logo on it, http://wtrc.net/~eric/label.jpg

eric


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