[GreenKeys] Teletype spotted

Jim Haynes jhhaynes at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 5 22:31:34 EST 2018


On Wed, 5 Dec 2018, Paul Heller wrote:

> I was watching an episode of M*A*S*H entitled "Tell It to the Marines” 
> (Season 9).  About 17 minutes in, Pierce goes into the press office and 
> there is UN War Correspondent typing on a model 26.
>
I wonder if there is any authenticity to that.  No new Model 26 machines
had been made since the late 1930s, according to what I've read; and it's
not the kind of machine you'd want to take into the field in war anyway.
Which is to say not especially rugged and requires its own special table
to handle the paper roll.

In fact it wasn't long after the Korean War that the Bell System started
taking Model 26s out of service.



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