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

[Nick England]

Well just to make sure the dead horse doesn't rest, here's Teletype's
TT-242/UG which was the lightweight (not necessarily light duty) prototype
that the USN declined in favor of the MITE teleprinter...
http://www.navy-radio.com/tty/ksr/tt242-ugc-1411-01.jpg
http://www.navy-radio.com/tty/ksr/tt242-1412-12.JPG

Teletype intended that the M33 machines were for light duty only and were
evidently somewhat surprised at how the 33 was adopted as the standard 24/7
computer terminal for everyone but the military.

R-390 content - all my teletype machines are hooked up to FSK converters
attached to R-390A receivers.

Nick England K4NYW
www.navy-radio.com

On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Don Reaves <donreaves at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
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> 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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