[R-390] R-390/R-389 CG ship installation

[Don Reaves]

Eh?  Wikileaks, er, i mean Wikipedia, claims the Model 33 was developed
first for the Navy.  So, there is that!  Wishful thinking on my part, I
guess, I have a KSR-33 and an ASR-33 in storage that might see the light of
day sometime, if for nothing more than to get a waft of that heated machine
oil smell.   Nothing like it.

WikiPee cites this document from Don House

http://www.baudot.net/docs/house--teletype-corp-synopsis.pdf

House says the Navy rejected the 33 design so it was released as a civilian
light duty machine, just as Nick reports.

If you go look at the 1979-89 timeline in Don's synopsis, you see that
AT&T/Teletype consolidated operations in Little Rock during that time.  My
computer software company at that time used many Model 40s for line
printers, and when one failed we could take it out to the huge facility in
southwest Little Rock, leave it at the guard shack, come back in a few days
and it would be waiting for us, repaired, at the guard shack.   As I recall
they never charged us for any of those repairs.

One of the AT&T engineers working there was a hometown friend, and he
finally got approval to give me a tour of the factory, minus the top secret
areas (LOL).  It was a fascinating place and I remember seeing a few
receivers in a few of the test areas.   They might have been R-390s but
some memories from then are fading.
AT&T, and my engineer friend, were in the midst of trying to automate the
factory using DEC minis and homegrown C programming.

Slightly OT;  I will return now to regular program content and admin
stealth mode.




On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Nick England <navy.radio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Model 28 Baudot teletype machines. Model 33 were light duty ASCII machines
> not suitable for military comms.
> FWIW - The ASR is likely AN/UGC-5, the KSR is likely TT-47/UG.
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