[Boatanchors] USS Midway notes

[mikea]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 08:17:17PM +0000, LARRY D GODEK wrote:

> Lots of TTY stuff setting around on display and it looked to me that
> once it was found out where the wiring ran to, (a common rack?) that
> this would be fun to get running. 28 ASR's, one at least with a separate
> reperf under the cover, a bunch of rack or shelf 28 RO's and a couple of
> KSR's rounded out the livery. Numerous 28's in the back rooms that had
> been run and checked out for spares.

> Can anyone tell me what speed the 28's ran at. Were there different
> speeds depending on whether they were running on an internal shipboard
> circuit or external to the ship. I'd think maybe 100WPM would have been
> a standard but i don't know. Did all machines in the main receiver room
> terminate at one patch panel bay or were they wired direct to another
> machine somewhere else on the ship? Lots a questions on this. Come on you
> Navy ET's.

Not Navy, but USAF. Our circuits all ran at 45.45 Baud (60 wpm). 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin 
SSGT, USAF, 1967-1971