Fort Devens Dispatch Tuesday, May 5, 1964 Page 8
Van, Four Tents At ASA Display
The Army Security Agency exhibit at the Armed Forces Day Midway here Saturday will feature equipment, materials, and methods used by ASA in their daily work.
The exhibit will consist of four tents and one van. These tents will feature all parts of ASA operations and procedures.
Tent number one will hold training aids, ranging from infrared "blacklights" to overhead projectors, which are used to project transparent images in a lighted room.
Tent number two will contain two telephones connected to a switchboard, and radio sets operating in "clear" (uncoded) text.
Visitors to the tent will be permitted to converse over both the telephones and the radios. A tape will also be operating on the radio system, and both recorded and spontaneous communications will be monitored by a teletype system.
Tent number three will feature inoperative displays of test equipment used to keep ASA's equipment in hair-line operating condition. Visitors will be able to take part in a "See Your Voice" demonstration.
Visitors to the fourth tent will see an amateur radio station in operation, and will have the opportunity to broadcast personal Mother's Day messages.
The van which will be used will be one of the Agency's expandable vans, which has the ability to grow in size to hold varying amounts of equipment in the field. It will contain some of the highly sophisticated data-processing equipment now in use by the Army Security Agency. Visitors to the van will be given pre-punched and printed IBM data cards, containing the message, "Welcome to Armed Forces Day Exhibit, 1964, Fort Devens, Mass.", and will be encouraged to operate key-driven IBM punch machines.