[GreenKeys] Fwd: NOS Model 28 tty

[Nick England]

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From: Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
Date: Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:36 AM
Subject: [MMRCG] Model 28 tty
To: milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>, mrca <mrca at mailman.qth.net>,
MMRCG at groups.io <MMRCG at groups.io>


Over the weekend had occasion to help a friend move a couple model 28
teletype machines. Both were NOS with one still sealed in its wooden
shipping crate. It required use of a Pallet jack, fork lift and a huge box
truck.

Think the base weight of the model 28, table and punch tape stuff all come
in at around one hundred forty pounds and who knows how much more when you
throw in all the packing and wooden container but it was plenty heavy.

One unit is still sealed in its shipping crate but the other had the crate
removed and looking at it there was all the paper work and manuals and
stuff along with the test sheet from when the unit was inspected and
accepted by the US Government back in 1970

This brings up the question, how late was the government purchasing these
machines? See from Wiki that they were still in production all the way up
until 1981 with the ASR series being targeted at the growing computer
industry.

The thing is that with the product line being introduced back in 1951 and
still being purchased by the military in the seventies they must have been
in use until at least the eighties so that gave them a thirty or so year
length of service. I am use to things like the UGC-74 or UGC-129 that are
all long gone now but looks like the KSR-28 had a lot longer period of use.
Was it the longest lived TTY?



Ray F/KA3EKH
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