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

[Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys]

Ok...   was  the case metal or  plastic?
Ed#
 
In a message dated 8/6/2015 6:27:09 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
whitebear1122 at comcast.net writes:

No it  wasn't a Mite.  I saw the Mite at the MARS station in the 
Philippines so  I know what it looks like.  This was a real Teletype.  73, Scott  
WA9WFA  




On Aug 6, 2015, at 8:23 PM, _COURYHOUSE at aol.com_ 
(mailto:COURYHOUSE at aol.com)  wrote:



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_ (mailto: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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