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

[Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys]

Scott there was the MITE that  the USAF used....  Nick???  <<< He Will 
know!>
 
 
In a message dated 8/6/2015 6:05:28 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
whitebear1122 at comcast.net writes:

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.   

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