[GreenKeys] FW: Computer Memory Lane

[Randy and Sherry Guttery]

  On 9/2/2010 8:18 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:

>  It appears they had no non-government customers.

In 1970/71 - I went through Polaris Electronics "A" & "C" 
schools at Dam Neck, VA. That was where I ran into my first 
model 28 - in the HAM shack at Dam Neck (also the first 390, 
WRR-2, URA-8 and so on).  Anyway - having caught the tty bug 
- I set about seeing what I could get for myself. Wasn't 
until a couple years later I managed to get my first 
(through 113th) machine - but I did make some interesting 
contacts "on the beach".  I met a gentleman who owned a 
communication company / shop in Norfolk who did a lot of 
maritime work (IIRC - everything from simple receivers; 
LORAN, Pathfinders, and so on. He "claimed" to be a Mite 
dealer as well - supplying them for weather and such. How 
much of his story was "true" and how much BS - I don't know 
- I became suspicious because the used Mite "needing some 
TLC" that he promised to sell me as soon as some "details" 
were worked out  never happened.  He did, how ever / where 
ever he got them - have a few mites in his shop in various 
states of condition. I recall one that was running - but 
would occasionally let out a squeal like a stuck pig... and 
blow a fuse.

At the time - I had no reason to doubt he was selling them 
to people for shipboard use - I just don't know where he was 
getting them (Mil surplus???)

just my .02 on the subject

-- 
randy guttery

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