[GreenKeys] Teletype Model 34

[Don Robert House]

Thanks be to Ben Stephens for this report!!!

Don
K9TTY

Hi Don,

I saw a few Model 34's.  They were used on Long Lines Project 176,  
which was the code name for our part of the Autovon communications  
system used by our Department of Defense during the Cold War.  The  
reason for the Model 34 was that a lot of the military communications  
still ran on the 5-bit Baudot Code, and they needed access to existing  
circuits and technology.  My guess on the cabinet work was that the  
old Model 28/29 styling was being phased out for the "modern" Model 35  
styling, and with the Model 35 sheet metal as the main housings in the  
production line, it was easier and cheaper to put the Model 28  
components into it.  The mechanical interface (motors, gears) was  
identical and interchangeable.  Style probably had something to do  
with it, as the old Model 28 styling would have looked out of place in  
a Project 176 center, where everything else had the  M35 styling.

C. Bennett (Ben) Stephens, K9KOM
Interline Telecom Service Corp.
Lake Forest, Illinois