[GreenKeys] RE: TT-76 not TT-4

[Randy or Sherry Guttery]

Duncan M. Brown wrote:
> I know the TT-4 & TT-76 well, having spent a year in Viet Nam keeping them
> running (and then getting reaquainted with them more recently at the AWA
> Museum).  That is why I was interested in their details.  

That's about the same reason I wish I knew more about the TT-117 and 
TT179s.  Being Air Force equipment - I didn't have any training on them 
- yet at one point in time (Feb. 73) I had between 5 and 6 dozen 117s 
and about a dozen 179s - we never did get an accurate count... Never saw 
a manual for either, they were very easy to work on.  I scrapped 
probably 15 to 20 machines - and used the parts to fix up the broken 
ones. Many fine the way they were - never did know the reason the Air 
Force got rid of them.  They were incredibly reliable work horses, 
particularly the 179.  The really neat thing about the 179 was besides 
being a typing reperf... it also served as a complete teletype "anchor" 
- as it had a built-in loop supply and front panel switches which served 
as a fairly versatile patch panel. While the tt-47 (model 28) was our 
favorite "toy"  (the fact ours had a three-speed box didn't hurt) - the 
tt-179 actually did the majority of the "real work" - i.e. copying 
messages which were then relayed on to San Fran. Our TT-179 had two 
plates - one the usual military plate - and one "SCM Kleinschmidt"... I 
don't recall if the TT-117 had both - or just the military plate - but I 
guess at the time they were built SCM was in the picture in some way.

best regards...
-- 
randy guttery

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