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If you discover atyping error while punching the tape, use this pushbutton
to return the tape back to the character that was wrongly printed.
Please note that the signals for FIGS shift, LTRS shift and SPACE must also
be counted. Now, the perforations of the wrong signal are again positioned
below the punches. Operate the key "A ..." at least as often as you have
operated the backspacing pushbutton. This causes all perforations to be
overpunched by the LTRS combination which is anon-printing function signal.
Now, type the respective character and all the following charakters again.
N o t e ;
If the signal to be corrected happens to be afigure or asymbol, the key
"1 ..." must, of course, be operated before typing the correct signal.
1 2 . 3 . C h e c k i n g a p e r f o r a t e d t o p e
When aperforated tape has been prepared, it will frequently be desirable
to check this tape before it is finally transmitted. This applies in particular
to very long messages or to messages which have been corrected.
P r o c e e d a s f o l l o w s :
Insert the tape in the tape transmitter attachment of your teleprinter as
described in paragraph 9. Depress the key with the green ring on the
r e m o t e c o n t r o l u n i t .
When the motor of your machine has started, switch on the tape transmitter
by depressing the pushbutton "Q". Your teleprinter will then record the
message stored in the perforated tape. The tape transmitter will be switched
off automatically at the end of the tape.
After the end of this message check, depress the clearing key in the remote
c o n t r o l u n i t .
If acall arrives from the exchange during this check, the tape transmitter
w i l l b e a u t o m a t i c a l l y a r r e s t e d t o p r e v e n t i n t e r f e r e n c e w i t h t h e i n c o m i n g
m e s s a g e .
N o t e :
When acall arrives during this check, one or two wrong signals might be
printed just before the tape transmitter is switched off. This is due to the
incoming call. It does not imply that your tape contains an error.
12.4. Duplication of tapes
P r o c e e d a s o u t l i n e d i n p a r a g r a p h 1 2 . 3 . T h e r e p e r f o r a t o r a t t a c h m e n t m u s t
be switched on before the tape transmitter attachment. The reperforator
m u s t b e s w i t c h e d o f f b e f o r e y o u d e p r e s s t h e c l e a r i n g k e y i n t h e r e m o t e
control unit at the end of the tape.
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