[MRCA] [MMRCG] Model 28 tty

[Peter Gottlieb]

I'd love to have a nice 28 but my available floor space has a different opinion.

I guess it's time to move!


On 10/8/2018 11:00 AM, Ray Fantini wrote:
>
> No way, I was only involved in moving those monsters. Don’t think I would have 
> the floor space to set up one. Attached is a picture of the shop from a couple 
> months back. What you don’t see is that now have added a RE-350K and a bunch 
> of other Harris junk and am in the process of trying to move another bookcase 
> for component storage and additional computer rack for the AN/UYK-19 project! 
> If I did TTY would use one of the vintage computers.
>
> Another foot note about this last weekend one of the other things we moved 
> were four wooden shipping crates with R-105A/ARR-15 receivers in them. We 
> popped the cover of one box that all appear having been boxed up in the 
> forties and there were the receivers. The weird thing was they were not NOS 
> but appeared having been used but for some weird reason had been repacked in 
> wooden shipping boxes for redistribution or some future use? When did they 
> stop packing things in heavy wooden crates? And why would the government go 
> thru such expense to save receivers like that?
>
> Ray F/KA3EKH
>
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> Outstanding !  We should have a TTY net.
>
> BB / W1NZR
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> 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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