Most likely a Teletype model 28 or some very similar unit. If you
hop on over to the Greenkeys list,
that is where all of us Teletype fans hang out.
A lot of resources are here too,
My uncle served in the Navy in the Philippine Islands
in a Signal
Corps unit doing communications of some sort. One of the
interesting souvenirs he made and brought back was a 5 level
punched tape, which his oldest daughter had in her collection.
I heard about it and had her copy a bit of it and send the image.
After I figured out the code, I had her send scans of the entire
tape 14" at a time, and have deciphered the entire thing.
I wonder what I could get from the assembled group here to help try
to figure out what terminal might have been used? Unfortunately I
don't have any data showing what he did, other than some bits of
stories. Most of his photos are interesting, but don't give a hint
as to what he was doing.
I have some ideas, but thought I'd ask here before guessing. I'm
hoping to make a guess as to a terminal and then find a photograph
for the scrapbook with the deciphered tape. I also found some naval
dispatches online which I suspect he might have had to do with
(form, not specific dispatches) if he was handling a tty of some
sort for transmission.
Anyway if you have info you want to share, feel free to send off the
list, or on if it won't go to far afield.
BTW, for those who want to read a lot of interesting info, here is
the site with the dispatches, and a lot of other fun reading about
WW2 affairs.
http://www.uboatarchive.net/index.html
I know the main topic is about german subs, but there are some nice
dispatches which I suspect are similar in form to what they would
have used with mechanical transmission equipment. I'd also take
any descriptions about procedures, and other equipment if it is on
this topic.
I have a group of WW2 aviators I'm going to send this to for
response as well, but this group will probably know about the coding
and technical info.
thanks
Jim