Siemens T1000 (British Navy)

[M1ECY]

I have a "new" machine here at the office - A Siemens T1000

Henning has already mentioned that the British T1000 is "Special", so I will be needing lots of help to get this machine interfaced to I-Telex.

In general, are there any areas of the T1000 that have common issues that should be addressed before I go too far with interfacing the machine to my system?

Thanks
Sean

[DF3OE]

Sean,
please take photos of all boards and put them here online.
We will need also numbers and labels of the boards.

Henning

[M1ECY]

Okay Henning, Job for the morning I think

[M1ECY]

Some pictures

[M1ECY]

And some more pictures - there's a lot of kit inside a T1000!

Ive not photographed the printer or the tape punch, I would thing these are standard across the range?

[DF3OE]

The diodes 8, 9 and 10 and 24 and 25 on the variants board and the big X key on the keyboard indicate it as a terminal machine for crypto use.

[M1ECY]

Ah, so does this mean that life on I-Telex is not possible?

[DF3OE]

Ah, so does this mean that life on I-Telex is not possible?

Unfortunately not really...
As already mentioned. This is a very special custom tailored version of the T1000(Z).
A derivated iTA2 without answerback exchange. You should keep it as a rare collectors item and
connect it somehow to a RTTY receiver.

[M1ECY]

Complete machine

[M1ECY]

Having a bit of a look around the web, I came across this useful English version - I have contacted the webmaster, and they are happy to let us have a copy here, so long as we acknowledge the source.

http://www.commsmuseum.co.uk/publications/t1000.pdf