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On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:06:17 -0500, "D.Duck" wrote:


Worked for Teletype Corp that eventually morphed into Bell Labs and
moved on
out to Naperville. Many friends of mine were caught up in the Lucent
fiasco.


I ever tell you my Dad had a beast of a Teletype machine in his radio
shack? Surplus military thing - bigger than a freakin' washing
machine.



My Navy experience started out as a Radioman and I was among 3 of the
first non-rated people to attend the Navy's teletype repair school in
Norfolk. ( I later converted to electronics in a Navy technical
education program).

Anyway, the Navy method of teaching stuff is sometimes amazing. I had
never seen a 100 wpm teletype machine in my life. At the end of the
six week school, I (and all the other graduates) could completely
disassemble the thing and it's hundreds of parts including gears,
clutches, pawls, shafts, etc., spread out all over the place and then
reassemble it, make all the necessary adjustments and it worked.
Thinking about modern computers, one can see the direct relationship
and evolution of Morse code to 8 bit teletype machines to this new, 64
bit Vista powered computer. It's an amazing advancement of technology
to witness in 40 years or so.

Eisboch

First big KSR33 I saw when I first got out of high school I worked in
the Western Electric warehouse. Guy is taking down a KSR33 from the top
of the racks and somebody forgot to strap it to the pallet. Takes a
20-25' nose dive to spread parts everywhere. Cool. Later NCR use a
light duty receive only teletype as the console printer on the CPU. Ran
24/7. We got good at rebuilding those units. The oilite bushings would
partly cut the main shaft about every 2 months at most. Was originally
designed to turn on only when a message came in. Bad engineering.

Hmmm. Sounds strange. When I worked for Teletype Corp we had M33's
running for years idling, with occasional printing. it was design for
light duty printing, not light duty power on.


do not remember the model. Been 40 years. But was designed to turn on
when a message came in.


Designed to turn the motor on.