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[Randy or Sherry Guttery]

Nick England wrote:
> "Index of Teletypewriter, Facsimile, and Related Equipment"
> Navelex 0967-LP-104-0010
> http://www.virhistory.com/navy/tty/navelex-tty-1977.pdf
> 
> has a list of manuals for various equipment in Chapter 6
> Good bedtime reading..

Yes, Thanks - I have that book... while it does fill in some "holes" 
here and there - it leaves out a lot. One thing it did do, though is 
cause me to see that the TT-47 is THE measuring stick for the 28s - from 
1950 (some sources site 1951) to the last - late 1970s. Date them - 
document them - and you have the 28's history pretty well nailed down. 
Two dates I did get else where already - while the military got 28s late 
50 early 51 --- civilians didn't get any until 1953. Everyone had to 
wait until 1957 for the ASR.  I had already figured out there was a few 
years between the introduction of the KSR/RO and the ASR - I just didn't 
know it was 6 - 7 years.

The Navy tended to issue manuals (or updates) specific to equipments as 
they went into service (look at the variety of manuals for the 
R-390/1/As). Hopefully they did something similar for the 28s - which 
might give us a handle on the 28 as it "evolved" over it's lifetime - 
both from the technology / feature aspect as well as dates - and 
responses to "customer needs".

I guess my research projects do go a bit overboard (TenderTale as an 
example)... but when I get through (or as through as I get) I have a 
pretty solid understanding of not only the "whats" and "whens" - but the 
"whys".  As I point out about tendertale - if you want to understand the 
  Naval part of WWII - particularly as it relates to how the submarines 
bought us precious time to rebuild the fleet that was devastated at 
Pearl Harbor - follow the Submarine Tenders - follow those dozen (give 
or take) ships over 4 years and many, many thousands of miles of ocean - 
and you'll get a solid understanding of how the war was raged by the 
U.S. I have no idea if following the development / evolution of the 
model 28 will lead to any such "understanding" of world events - yet as 
noted - I've already found that the 28's introduction to the civilian 
population was delayed for 2+ years because of the Korean "conflict". 
Why the ASR wasn't introduced for yet another 4 years is yet to be 
answered.  May be "just because" - or it may be that Teletype was 
stretched to the limits with the new printer - and "new things" such as 
integrating the tape systems just had to wait.  But those are "stories" 
yet to be discovered. We also "think" the ASR-X is a "cold war" 
oddity... anyone know how many of those were built???  and for that 
matter why???? I mean how much traffic could one "station" hope to move? 
were they really "practical" or were they a President's ah - hood ornament?

One problem is that this is "stuff" that most people today don't 
consider "important" - and the details are being lost. It may already be 
too late to put the "whole story" together - but the only way to find 
out - is to try - and I hope what can be saved and put into some 
"useful" form might help preserve the machines themselves - particularly 
after most our age are long gone.

Thanks again! and
best regards...
-- 
randy guttery

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