RUSSIAN STENOTYPE EQUIPMENT. VOLUME II. RUSSIAN STENOTYPE TERMINAL EQUIPMENT AND INPUT MULTIPLEXING.
Richard Kenneth Marcus, Libby,Richard, Novier,Phillip · Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) · 1966
The volume covers the underlying concepts and description of remote-input terminal equipment developed for converting Stenotype keyboard actuations into electrical signals suitable for transmission to a different location for subsequent translation type processing. In addition the problem of multiplexing several such input terminals into the input of a single translating system is treated. The general problem addressed is posed by the possible use of Russian Stenotype keyboards as efficient and higher speed converters of Cyrillic text into machine readable form. This would be useful in a mechanical translation system such as the U. S. Air Force's AN/GSQ-16(XW-2) as well as in other text conversion operations. The general system configurations studied and the specific equipment descriptions are based upon the existence of an electrically wired Stenograph keyboard with an optimized Russian keyboard arrangement, and a remote terminal 'serializer-encoder' which is capable of one-half duplex telephone line transmission as well as controlling operation of a paper tape punch or some other recording device. (Author)