[Milsurplus] Model 28 tty

[Ray Fantini]

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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