I think there were also the original commercial versions made from the
mid-1920's on.
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
From: Joe
<rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
At 11:00 PM 3/7/03 -0500, you wrote:
Damm! Now
there's something that you don't see everyday!
I wonder how many are out there in private (non government) hands.
I have seen one, in the D-Day Museum in New Orleans.
I doubt there are any still in governement hands except perhaps in museums.
But stop and think for a moment, every unit of the German army, air force, navy
and even railroad police had one during WW II. They must have made tens if not
handreds of thousands of these! And that's not including the ones that were
probably used by Germany's allies.
Hi
It is most likely that this is one of the ones that
was made after the war. Quite a few of these were made
for other governments after the war. You'll note that
he never said that this one was used during the war
or mentioned a manufacture date.
Dwight
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
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