[GreenKeys] What Came After Model 28? and other Musings

[Whitebear1122]

When I was in the US Navy in 1972, a Radioman on the USS Okinawa LPH-3, they had a Teletype machine that was "after" the Model 28.  It was a lot smaller, it looked like a small table top box with a keyboard, cut.   What I do remember was that it was POS.  The Teletype Repairman was pulling his hair out trying to keep it running. 

All I recall is that the keys were attached via thin stiff wires rather than stamped metal pieces.  The TTY repairman would have to tweak the stiff wires to get a key working again.  That was the main failure mechanism, random keys would suddenly stop working and the wires had to be bent.  It wasn't the wildly popular computer Model 33 either.  Something earlier.

By the way, I am listed by the Navy as attending Teletype Repair School !  Ooooohhhhhh.  The story is that when the radio room of the USS Okinawa was remodeled, all the Model 28's were sent to Teletype Repair School for the maintenance plus cabinets to be repainted.  They sent me along and I spent something like two weeks sanding and painting 28 ASR and 28 KSR cabinets.   I was just looking at my Navy records the other night and saw that I attended "Teletype Repair School" hi hi  I can't fix a Teletype but I sure can sand and paint the cabinets like a pro.. hi hi  

Someone used the term "waterfall" on here recently.  I wonder if that's the rack mounted 28 mechanism.  The Okinawa had at least two of those racks that held something like 4 or six  28 printers stacked on top of each other.  

Just reminiscing the old days in the radio room's of the USS Jouett, USS Okinawa, USS Duluth, back when I wuz young and good-looking, or young at least :)

73, Scott WA9WFA
Model 15, HAL ST-6 built new in 1982.