[GreenKeys] QUESTION: stress on a 28 running open -vs- printing data

[tony j. podrasky]

GE OMs;

To Jack Hart - and all the other TTY gurus;

A long time ago I was told that a Teletype machine "running open"
would tear itself apart - but printing normally was fine.

Well, - I'm looking at my 2 28's right now - and I don't see how
"running open" is anymore stressful on it than printing.

When it's running open it just continues to "do its thing" at what
I would call a stable state. It doesn't seem to be under any kind of
stress that would be in excess of what it would be under, under normal
printing conditions - other than it is running at a few OPS more than
it would be while printing data.

What say you?

UE,
W6ESE - tony
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