Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Daniel Birchall Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Teletype Marked "Crypto" and Other Found Treasures Message-ID: <10923@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 14 Aug 90 21:59:11 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 16 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 572, Message 10 of 10 My father and I recently acquired (read: took from a pile of trash marked "free") a teletype machine. I don't know much about such machines, and as far as I am concerned, there is nothing special about this one. Personally, I didn't want to get it. :) However, on the stand (under the keyboard part) someone labeled it (with a black marker, evidently) CRYPTO. Does that mean that this machine will put out encrypted transmissions? Or was it used by some department that had 'crypto' level clearances? Any guesses? Well, my father looked through the stuff we trashpicked, and we have a few questions [I am presuming that telecommunications includes radio frequency] one of the widgets is a CV-89A/URA-8A "Frequency Shift Converter" ... what the heck is that? :) Also, there was an RCA AR-88 Receiver, 540 KC to 32 MC ... Final question, who is or was W2VZM?