The Newmanry History

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Step ("run" on Miles D) causes both the transmitters and reperforators to

Space causes the reperforators to step, and punch blanks, the transmitters

Single step, single space can, be flicked on and off for single step or

The unlabelled switch to the right of the reperforator switches on Miles C

The pair or switches below these on Miles D are for flagging (Next para.

The Triple switch is the on-off switch.

The basic idea is to control the stepping of transmitters automatically by

This may be needed if tapes are to be combined not concurrently, but

The gadget was made specially for Mechanical Flagging (ch 95) without much

This explains the rather odd facilities available.

The gadget manifests itself as a series of jacks JZ1 - JZ8.

JZ1,2,3,4 starts transmitters 1,2,3,4, respectively.
JZ5 produces a cross in JZ7 and, if
JZ1,2,3,4 are all dots, produces a cross in JZ8 & steps transmitter 4
JZ6 stops transmitters 1,2,3,4 and steps transmitter 5one sprocket hole.

The gadget has two switches : the right hand one switches in the gadgets,

There are
6 Transmitters.
3 Reperforators.
3 Controls (which control the stepping of both transmitters and

6 Common jacks.
8 Sets of jacks for differencing an impulse (backwards) or taking an impulse

2 Sets of extra jacks for addition.

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