[Milsurplus] [MMRCG] Model 28 tty

[Nick England]

One data point - still being installed on new ships in 1987.
http://www.navy-radio.com/ships/ffg7.htm

Another - Model 28 machines were still in use aboard USS Midway when
decommissioned in 1992.
Nick

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 9:36 AM Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:

> 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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