[GreenKeys] RE: not many of us left

[wa2hwj at att.net]

Re: the military TTY repair men....

When I started working for Ma Bell in a Teletype gang in 1970,
I was flabbergasted that a large number of the guys in the
gang actually didn't LOVE working on TTY's(!). I guess the
fact that I had my first TTY at age 13 (and have yet to find
them boring) might have had an influence on my attitude.

There were those who would only work on 15's, others would only
touch a 28 (nobody liked 33's). And, there were some who
claimed they were Kleinschmidt experts and so they shouldn't
be expected to be Teletype experts, too. Even "management"
seemed to lean towards one model or the other as far as
expertise.

Go figure...

73,
Jack K0TTY

NNNN


-------------- Original message from Bob McConnell <rmcconne at lightlink.com>: -------------- 


> Teletypeparts at aol.com wrote: 
> > Heck, I'm 65 but my wife says I look 49, but she's prejudiced of course. 
> 
> Hopefully it's not because her eyes are going or that her memory is 
> better than her eye sight. 
> 
> I have also posted about this list in a couple of Usenet groups. The 
> topic comes up on comp.os.cpm once in a while. In addition to that, I 
> have met a few ex-military TTY repair men recently. I always tell them 
> how to find this list. Some are not too enthusiastic about it though. 
> 
> Bob McConnell 
> N2SPP 
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