[GreenKeys] Riddle me this... If a TWX was installed in 1955 would it be ...

[Charles Ring]

I recall reading that the Chicago police were still using Model 12's 
well into the 1950's.


On 4/23/2013 0102, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> Ok it was a deal discussed  in 1954 & installed in 1955 Jim
> This is  great insight....Would a police dept. have any clot to get 
> the  newer machine?
> Ed# www.smecc.org <http://www.smecc.org>
> In a message dated 4/22/2013 7:30:05 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, 
> jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:
>
>     I'd say a 15 is more likely, but at 28 is possible.  Early on the
>     military
>     was getting the entire productions of 28s, and I'm not sure when that
>     ended and civilian deliveries began.  And since TWX is a telco
>     service,
>     if the company had any machines already on hand they would most likely
>     be 15s.  I woudn't imagine they would give the customer any choice,
>     since TWX was 60 wpm; they would hold any 28s for private line
>     customers
>     wanting 100 wpm service, until they ran out of 15s.  I'm pretty sure
>     15s were still being made in the mid 1950s because the Model 19 was
>     still in the catalog - the 28ASR wasn't born yet.
>
>     But this is all speculative.
>

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