14 Jan
2025
14 Jan
'25
2:11 p.m.
On Jan 14, 2025, at 4:19 PM, Frank Leonhardt via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 14/01/2025 20:59, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
It could well be been a 32 - I don't think they're labelled. The thing is that I
don't think it's much different from the ASCII 33 inside - it just looks like some
of the control rods are missing. I don't think the keyboard is any different. But I
don't think I've looked at it for 40 years... This isn't what you'd expect
from a pre-ASCII model, unless they were planning ahead. Although thinking about it, it
was the most modern Baudot machine in the building so perhaps they were designed together.
They certainly look overall like a model 33 and presumably are similar inside. An easy
way to tell the two apart is that the model 33 has a four-row keyboard, with numbers on
the top row just like today's standard keyboards. A model 32 has a three-row
keyboard, with the numbers shown as shifted values on the top row letters (QWERTY...).
That three row keyboard is a common feature of Baudot terminals, though a few
manufacturers use a four row keyboard and either lock out some of the keys depending on
the shift state, or do a letters/figures shift automatically, I'm not sure which.
paul
Baudot,
of course, was several domain-specific versions. They didn't even all have the same
letter/figure shift code, never mind the same symbols in the same place. You had to just
know what the wierdnesses were on any teleprinter that wasn't an original Creed (as
supplied by Elliott). I've still got a Baudot ASR33 in the shed, although I might have
scavenged it for parts for the ASCII. Mostly common linkage parts on the Baudot - just
fewer of them :-)
That would be an ASR32.
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