I was a teletype mechanic in the USAF and enjoyed repairing these complicated intricate machines. Love the sound of them running. Stationed at RAF wethersfiefd and RAF Croughton 1969-1973.
I had a boss that was a USAF teletype mechanic (Thule). He showed me the teletype mechanic salute (emulates whacking tuning fork on leg then raising to a vibrating salute).
I was a Radioman in the Navy and used these teletypes in Italy at COMSUBGRU8 from 1976 through 1983. (I too was a repairman for these. Went to school for it in San Diego.) Had a bunch of these in a small comm center. When they were all running, we had to yell to talk with each other. We had a wall of teletypes reading 5 baud tape sending out message traffic to the submarines at that time. Very loud when they were all running. This was around the time they started using SatCom too. SSIXS it was called. Very efficient.. it was my first use with computers with a terminal to talk to the US.. "BBS via satellite". Fun days to remember! Now I work in IT. Great start to my career.
Navcommsta Sfran room filed with TTYs. plus TTYs that transmitted to the PacFlt. Very noise. Think there were 4 TTys primary use for rerouting msgs and then a bunch of flt TTYS. Still laughing...!
Carol, did you have prac deck as the last part of your school? And did you have that tape recording of showing how to type? Like it said for instance, ready ,one,two, A, B C, and so on.And remember this ( the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs back 1234567890) Over and Over and over again we typed it, until our speed got up. I was there San Diego fall of 1974.
I was with COMSUBGRU 5 in San Diego, Subase Ballast Point. Worked out of the Sub Tenders there (USS Dixon, USS Mckee, USS Sperry) and I knew SSIXS very well. Also we were the PCS (Primary Controlling Station) for the PSBB BCST. I am sure you heard of VERDIN too. I was a 2342/2346 and a Model 37ASR Tech too. Went to Sheppard AFB for the Model 37, which we had 9 terminals in London UK, where I stationed with Naval Communications Unit United Kingdom. We supported CINCUSNAVEUR, which is now relocated to Naples.
@Joe Chmelik I had a complete Mod. 37 and threw it away bcs of no use.... Also had a bunch of Mod. 28 and even a Mod. 40 and a Mod. 43... Worked at a COMM CENTER and trained in Skokie, Ill. at TELETYPE factory...
And this is the leading edge technology the Air Force trained me to maintain back in 81. Grew to love the job while stationed at Spangdahlem, AB Germany, and as a travel maintenance team member to Memmingen AB, Germany and Kleine Brogel, AB Belgium
Used to have one of these (or something very similar) in our police dispatch center in the 70's; it's what we used to run vehicle registrations, check for NCIC wants, etc. Always loved the sound
Could some PLEASE record this in an 8 hour version? Reminds me of those long, slow weekend midwatches where no one minded if you dozed off now and then pulling broadcast. 😛
On Guam during the mid watches around 4 to 5am with HF all of our communications would be garbled due to the sunrise and the ionization of the atmosphere. We would stand around for at lease an hour doing nothing .
I worked for The Western Union Telegraph Company, right after I graduated from High School in, 1967. I installed, repaired and, maintained the Teletype Models 28,35 and, the 33, which was a lower priced Model from the Teletype Corporation. Western Union sent me to Chicago, to The Teletype Company training school, they were very through in training the students.
Cool! I ran one of these for a couple of months when I was loaned out to the Naval Communication Station in Norfolk, VA in 1967. We had about 8 of these in the room.
This sure takes me back. My dad was a Western Union tech and had a couple models of teletypes in the basement. Underneath the large older one was my safe place to go if a tornado was going to hit us. My dad had them operating and I was always mesmerized watching and listening. Seeing this video, makes me remember even how they smelled 😆. The good old 60's equipment!
What a beautiful ASR "Green Key" TTY station, well maintained & oiled. I know I worked on many of my own back in the 70's. A TTY Tech said the best way to oil the machine is, put a NY Times Sunday edition under the carrage, and apply TTY oil liberally and let it drain off ! Worked well for me !
Dad, a career wire service news man, loved these and would take me into the bureau offices on weekends to see the newly-arrived machines...later the wirephoto versions
I used this in the ASA long before the internet. Talked online all over the system. It transmitted the tapes at 100WPM. I could have tape backed up while it transmitted what I typed.Funny thing at my first job interview they said I had to take a typing test. Was I surprised when I saw they used an Automatic Send and Receive 28. I warmed up my fingers on the keys and the man said that is all we need. Loved those machines and the Tech repair guys that kept them running for me in the ASA.
Los Angeles Fire Department had one of these at their dispatch center in the '80s. It kept a printed record of all the runs that went out to the remote fire stations that printed their copy onto model 33s.
Oh, man , that sounds like a well maintained unit. Love those . I am working on a KSR 28 at home and should be copying ITTY in a couple of months. 73's.
Ben There, Done That...... In the 70's, I was part of an active group of Ham's that were very serious operators of the "Green Keys". Irv Hoff, was one of the group and would of course lead us to the cutting edge. Over the years I had the Model 15, 17 and 19. Later, I finally got the revered Model 28 ASR. By the way, it is time for the Ink to be changed on this beautiful machine..... Smile...... K9FLY
@@denelson83 - Nah, with this it was WCBS Newsradio 88, with the likes of such pairings as Lou Adler and Jim Donnelly in the mornings, and "He's Pat Parson, I'm Ben Farnsworth" in the afternoons. (Plus such other voices as Harvey Hauptman, Robert Vaughn, Bob Glenn, Bill Fahan, Palmer Payne, Gary Maurer, Rita Sands, Ralph Howard, John Wydra, etc.) WINS's homegrown recording sounded more muffled and muddy, and had a good amount of Model 15's (which sounded considerably different) in the mix.
Back in the 70's all the news radio stations had one of these as "back ground" noise in their broadcasts. When I slept down at my Aunt' house as a kid they used to listen to WPAZ late into the night and this sound would put me to sleep along with the two tone marking of the top of the hour and the 1/2 hour
I will never forget the sounds these made from these machines constantly in mass from a tiny double wide looking house trailer at the busiest Major Relay Communications Center in South East Asia at the time. RRCUV 509th
Navy ET-A school, Treasure Island, 68-68. I was a RADAR designatied ET, but was a member of the island amateur radio club, K6NCG. Look it up. We had a number of old model 15 era TTY, and a friend and I raided the "mothball" fleet for some more modern 28 based TTY and terminal units. I learned a lot about RTTY (pronounced "ritty") in the amateur club.
Oh, man, hearing this baby, I started having flashbacks. Ah, ha! ha! Every once in awhile, I try to seek out my mobile Com van, the AN/UGC-28 van serial no. 001 to no avail. But when I saw this, just had to hear it run. We had 4 stations in our tiny van using KW-7 crypto gear. Then it was upgraded in 83 with mag tape using KG-84 crypto and Fredricks Electronics floating board modems. Still, was nothing like chad tape, spools of it for each message sent in a relay station.
The sound of this sounds almost like what was recorded in the now-defunct New York station WCBS Newsradio 88's teletype room (on the 16th floor of Black Rock) in 1972, as would be heard behind their anchors (such as Lou Adler, Jim Donnelly, Harvey Hauptman, Rita Sands, Gary Maurer, Pat Parson, Ben Farnsworth, Robert Vaughn, Palmer Payne, Bob Glenn, Bill Fahan, Ralph Howard and many others) through 1986; in a corner of that room were three Model 28 KSR's, and based on videos like this, I strongly suspect the microphone was placed in that corner, and thus the 28's were the ones heard clacking on that sound effect.
I went to teletype school in Norfolk, VA in the fall of 1984. I was supposed to extend 11 months because of the school. I took the RE4 code on my 214. Then reenlisted 2 years later.
THIS sound is probably the most iconic computer sound in all of movie history. I don't care what it is. It could be a 100 XBOX GPU parallel network running AI software, and in the background they would still play this sound.
I worked for Pacific Telephone starting the the '70s. The Model 28 Teletype was the best 100 baud machine ever built....cast frame parts, they'd last forever. The 33s and 35s...not so much, due to pressed sterl parts.
My USAF unit in the 70s was responsible for overhauling all Air Force Model 28 machines. We needed a 2,000 item bench stock for all the little screws, wipes, washers, etc. When done, they looked and worked like new. It was ironic that, in the 80s, they were replaced by throwaway printers costing a few hundred bucks.
Was a CG Telephone Tech grad school 1984. It was 2 months of my life will never get back. Did 21 years and never worked on one in the field. Some key words... spacing drum feed pal release link goes counter clockwise and away. The golden screw! Type box clutch. Why do I still have this crap in my head??!
I on the other hand worked on these 28 ASR's for 1975-1979 for the Coast Guard. Got good at it -repairs and overhauls-but preferred climbing towers. Hello William (Bill) Erwin, been awhile.
Hi Rick, I also was a ttyrepairman/radioman back in the mid 60's...when you were discharged in 1980 the teletype Was on its way out...when I was discharged in 1967 my Navy training in tty repair led to a 2 year gratuity in moneyFor my time and a 35 year job with the phone company...the Model 40 line of crt's and line printers led to their demise....this mod28asr would have more dependable because its running at a slower speed, probably 75wpm..that's why it sounds soothing to some..my best guess about that "wheel looking thingy" is that it mightBe a gauge device...the tty has many adjustments that are critical...it appears to have wire loops around the Edge...but I can't be sure...
That sound brings back memories. i used to work on the ASR 28s on shipboard and ground. The military always wanted them to run at 100 wpm, but they had very little traffic. The 60 wpm sounds sothing after being in roms with nachines going 100 der alteist
60 WPM was usually the speed heard for teletype SFX on all-news radio stations "back then." 67 WPM sounds like that was heard, from 1969-70 to '77, on the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" at both the start and finish.
Back in the late 70s these 28's were used by the National Numismatic Network (NNN). Subscribers were coin dealers and bullion brokers. Used on phone lines with bell 212A modem..units had motorized paper takeup. Remember boxes and boxes of canary yellow rolls....
Last one I used was at the Coast Guard 8th District commcen 1991. I enjoyed the sound and rhythm, though I wonder if my four Trigger Finger surgeries had origin in pounding the crap out of those stiff keys.
I was a Telecommunications Systems Equipment Maintenance Specialist- 36350 aka Teletype Maintenance. Worked on on these beasties all around the world in the usaf. Can you say Reperferator?
Here is something that rather stunned me, we or I used to think technology was a benchmark for scientific progress, but it seems more that technology boots itself for the most part, meaning that in many cases we use something without fully understanding it, but here's the kicker, everything we enjoy today is from science acquired by 1927! Just keeps getting improved on, tubes to transistors so on, all of it was in place scientifically speaking by 1927 which goes a long way to explain why we still are 1. on gasoline and 2 do not have flying cars! Back in the 70's whenever they showed the future of the year 2000 we have flying damn cars!Do you remember when you saw your first princess phone? Lol they looked so futuristic and the first push button? Forget about it! Do people still use the old typewriters that came in their own little suitcaes? My dad pounded on his constantly, God how I wish I could read anything that he wriote back then.
We don't have flying cars because there is no interest in the study of the causes and science behind inertia and gravity. I would go as far as saying there is a structured ignorance of it. It really puzzles me.
Worked on tty's for almost 15 years. Went to TTY School in Norfolk, 1981. Chief Roamer instructed. Soon became so good at repair, and maint. I was sent to USS Nassau for Op's Desert Shield/Storm TAD tty repair. Still have a gift of a Main Shaft with clutches...when I retired. Anyone remember what "FRED" stood for at RM A School?
In the early black & white years, CBS Evening News simply piped in the sound of the teletypes at the end of the broadcast as they lowered the studio lights.. Teletypes just continued clacking away, because the news never stops..
Even Model 14 reperforators. Philadelphia station KYW NewsRadio 1060's teletype sound bore resemblance to those. Most used Model 15's. These babies - generally, Model 28 KSR's - were most likely the ones heard on WCBS Newsradio 88 in New York, behind their anchors, starting within the second half of 1972 and still heard as late as around 1987. (Their teletype room had three 28 KSR's all gathered together in a corner, that's probably the area where that recording was made.)
Spent may hours sitting in front of one of these in the Navy on board the USS Guadalcanal and repaired them on board the USS Carl Vinson. Hated the smell of the hot lubricating oil and the long distance it took to depress the keys could make your fingers muscle bound.
Can you imagine spending an entire career in a large newspaper, radio or television newsroom, and then one day, they go quiet forever? That must have been unsettling for many.
Mid watch with the teletypes and the frequencies went bad due to the fact that the sun was rising, and it ionized the ionosphere. It started around 4am and continued to about 6 am. We got a break from working until they came back up. Qsy VA 12..354 or something like that..
Who remembers the Kleinschmidt AN-FGC model 25? 'I love the smell of burnt selenium rectifier in the morning, smells like $@&# on toast." RYR RYR RYR RYR RYR RYR RYR RYR. Attn all 363s. If you know THE QUICK BROWN FOX YUMPED OVER THE LAXY DOGS BACK there is a computer simulation online you can dowoad that recreates and operates exactly like the real thing only faster and easier and is complete with sounds and settings are configurable. And the sounds are spot on. For info just comment on this post.
It was literally the sound of the news. As a child I immediately new what the sound meant long before I understood exactly what was making it. Now, it is merely a forgotten anachronism. Progress takes its toll.
I was a teletype mechanic in the USAF and enjoyed repairing these complicated intricate machines. Love the sound of them running.
Stationed at RAF wethersfiefd and RAF Croughton 1969-1973.
I had a boss that was a USAF teletype mechanic (Thule). He showed me the teletype mechanic salute (emulates whacking tuning fork on leg then raising to a vibrating salute).
I always associate that sound with bad news coming - like the Soviets have just launched!
@@MrGoneTroppo Sure glad that never happened as I am sure my base was one of their targets.
@@MrGoneTroppo ruclips.net/video/csIGzlo0Wsw/видео.html
Man I love the sound of a teletype running! To think the whole world spoke via these machines for decades...awesome!
Still do, RTTY is sent over shortwave radio all the time for various things.
I was a Radioman in the Navy and used these teletypes in Italy at COMSUBGRU8 from 1976 through 1983. (I too was a repairman for these. Went to school for it in San Diego.) Had a bunch of these in a small comm center. When they were all running, we had to yell to talk with each other. We had a wall of teletypes reading 5 baud tape sending out message traffic to the submarines at that time. Very loud when they were all running. This was around the time they started using SatCom too. SSIXS it was called. Very efficient.. it was my first use with computers with a terminal to talk to the US.. "BBS via satellite". Fun days to remember! Now I work in IT. Great start to my career.
Navcommsta Sfran room filed with TTYs. plus TTYs that transmitted to the PacFlt. Very noise. Think there were 4 TTys primary use for rerouting msgs and then a bunch of flt TTYS. Still laughing...!
Carol, did you have prac deck as the last part of your school? And did you have that tape recording of showing how to type? Like it said for instance, ready ,one,two, A, B C, and so on.And remember this ( the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs back 1234567890) Over and Over and over again we typed it, until our speed got up. I was there San Diego fall of 1974.
I was with COMSUBGRU 5 in San Diego, Subase Ballast Point. Worked out of the Sub Tenders there (USS Dixon, USS Mckee, USS Sperry) and I knew SSIXS very well. Also we were the PCS (Primary Controlling Station) for the PSBB BCST. I am sure you heard of VERDIN too. I was a 2342/2346 and a Model 37ASR Tech too. Went to Sheppard AFB for the Model 37, which we had 9 terminals in London UK, where I stationed with Naval Communications Unit United Kingdom. We supported CINCUSNAVEUR, which is now relocated to Naples.
@Joe Chmelik
I had a complete Mod. 37 and threw it away bcs of no use....
Also had a bunch of Mod. 28 and even a Mod. 40 and a Mod. 43...
Worked at a COMM CENTER and trained in Skokie, Ill. at TELETYPE factory...
@@jimmyharris1481 wow...a Model 37....I would have loved to keep just the printer to show my grandkids what grandpa worked on in the Navy...
And this is the leading edge technology the Air Force trained me to maintain back in 81. Grew to love the job while stationed at Spangdahlem, AB Germany, and as a travel maintenance team member to Memmingen AB, Germany and Kleine Brogel, AB Belgium
I too used this in the USAF, 1974. Go Air Force! Service above self.
Used to have one of these (or something very similar) in our police dispatch center in the 70's; it's what we used to run vehicle registrations, check for NCIC wants, etc. Always loved the sound
Could some PLEASE record this in an 8 hour version? Reminds me of those long, slow weekend midwatches where no one minded if you dozed off now and then pulling broadcast. 😛
On Guam during the mid watches around 4 to 5am with HF all of our communications would be garbled due to the sunrise and the ionization of the atmosphere. We would stand around for at lease an hour doing nothing .
I was a Radioman stationed in Kamiseya Japan back in the 80s. It’s a trip… This was emailing at the time 😆
I worked for The Western Union Telegraph Company, right after I graduated from High School in, 1967. I installed, repaired and, maintained the Teletype Models 28,35 and, the 33, which was a lower priced Model from the Teletype Corporation. Western Union sent me to Chicago, to The Teletype Company training school, they were very through in training the students.
Hypnotic, soothing and relaxing. Also, very interesting to see older ways of telecommunication.
Cool! I ran one of these for a couple of months when I was loaned out to the Naval Communication Station in Norfolk, VA in 1967. We had about 8 of these in the room.
I used these in the Air Weather Service (USAF) in 1974. I transmitted weather forecasts and observations on these.
I installed and repaired this model when I was in the US Air Force.
I typed on one in the Air force
I repaired these in the RAAF
Thank you. I used these in 1974 in the USAF, in the Air Weather Service. Service above self!
This sure takes me back. My dad was a Western Union tech and had a couple models of teletypes in the basement. Underneath the large older one was my safe place to go if a tornado was going to hit us.
My dad had them operating and I was always mesmerized watching and listening. Seeing this video, makes me remember even how they smelled 😆. The good old 60's equipment!
What a beautiful ASR "Green Key" TTY station, well maintained & oiled. I know I worked on many of my own back in the 70's. A TTY Tech said the best way to oil the machine is, put a NY Times Sunday edition under the carrage, and apply TTY oil liberally and let it drain off ! Worked well for me !
Dad, a career wire service news man, loved these and would take me into the bureau offices on weekends to see the newly-arrived machines...later the wirephoto versions
I used this in the ASA long before the internet. Talked online all over the system. It transmitted the tapes at 100WPM. I could have tape backed up while it transmitted what I typed.Funny thing at my first job interview they said I had to take a typing test. Was I surprised when I saw they used an Automatic Send and Receive 28. I warmed up my fingers on the keys and the man said that is all we need. Loved those machines and the Tech repair guys that kept them running for me in the ASA.
Worked on them in Navy. Excellent machine
Brings back a ton of memories! Worked on these as well as TTY Model 15s, 19s and many others while in the AF. AFSC 36350
I am filled with nostalgia just watching this!
Los Angeles Fire Department had one of these at their dispatch center in the '80s. It kept a printed record of all the runs that went out to the remote fire stations that printed their copy onto model 33s.
Used to have one of these in my basement when I ran traffic for Navy/Marine Corps MARS.
Me too!
Oh, man , that sounds like a well maintained unit. Love those . I am working on a KSR 28 at home and should be copying ITTY in a couple of months. 73's.
I'd love to have over shortwave radio. Lots of great RTTY service on there plus you can use with your ham radio license.
Ben There, Done That...... In the 70's, I was part of an active group of Ham's that were very serious operators of the "Green Keys". Irv Hoff, was one of the group and would of course lead us to the cutting edge.
Over the years I had the Model 15, 17 and 19. Later, I finally got the revered Model 28 ASR. By the way, it is time for the Ink to be changed on this beautiful machine..... Smile...... K9FLY
I had one of these in 1965 using it for CD and RACES in N/W Indiana. We converted them from 100 speed to 60. That was the good old days !!!
These are very cool machines. I could watch the print head run for hours! Randy
Grew up with one in the house, Teletypes were used extensively by the deaf community.
I can see why, no person that's able to hear would want one!
Ah yes, I spent the first four years of my Air Force career maintaining these puppies (early 1970s). They were remarkable and reliable machines.
As an old air force communicator, that is music to my ears!
"All news, all the time.
This is 1010 WINS.
You give us 22 minutes,
we'll give you the world."
Agree, service above self. Go Air Force!
@@denelson83 - Nah, with this it was WCBS Newsradio 88, with the likes of such pairings as Lou Adler and Jim Donnelly in the mornings, and "He's Pat Parson, I'm Ben Farnsworth" in the afternoons. (Plus such other voices as Harvey Hauptman, Robert Vaughn, Bob Glenn, Bill Fahan, Palmer Payne, Gary Maurer, Rita Sands, Ralph Howard, John Wydra, etc.) WINS's homegrown recording sounded more muffled and muddy, and had a good amount of Model 15's (which sounded considerably different) in the mix.
Back in the 70's all the news radio stations had one of these as "back ground" noise in their broadcasts. When I slept down at my Aunt' house as a kid they used to listen to WPAZ late into the night and this sound would put me to sleep along with the two tone marking of the top of the hour and the 1/2 hour
I will never forget the sounds these made from these machines constantly in mass from a tiny double wide looking house trailer at the busiest Major Relay Communications Center in South East Asia at the time. RRCUV 509th
Navy ET-A school, Treasure Island, 68-68. I was a RADAR designatied ET, but was a member of the island amateur radio club, K6NCG. Look it up. We had a number of old model 15 era TTY, and a friend and I raided the "mothball" fleet for some more modern 28 based TTY and terminal units. I learned a lot about RTTY (pronounced "ritty") in the amateur club.
Same here
@@melodyszadkowski5256 I did too in the RAAF
I remember them fondly!
Oh, man, hearing this baby, I started having flashbacks. Ah, ha! ha! Every once in awhile, I try to seek out my mobile Com van, the AN/UGC-28 van serial no. 001 to no avail. But when I saw this, just had to hear it run. We had 4 stations in our tiny van using KW-7 crypto gear. Then it was upgraded in 83 with mag tape using KG-84 crypto and Fredricks Electronics floating board modems. Still, was nothing like chad tape, spools of it for each message sent in a relay station.
Did you ever save the chads and have a chad party when someone who was short had their last day?
The sound of this sounds almost like what was recorded in the now-defunct New York station WCBS Newsradio 88's teletype room (on the 16th floor of Black Rock) in 1972, as would be heard behind their anchors (such as Lou Adler, Jim Donnelly, Harvey Hauptman, Rita Sands, Gary Maurer, Pat Parson, Ben Farnsworth, Robert Vaughn, Palmer Payne, Bob Glenn, Bill Fahan, Ralph Howard and many others) through 1986; in a corner of that room were three Model 28 KSR's, and based on videos like this, I strongly suspect the microphone was placed in that corner, and thus the 28's were the ones heard clacking on that sound effect.
I was an Air Force communications troop for 20 years. Had lots of experience using an ASR28.
I used these in the USAF, Air Weather Service in 1974. Fond memories.
I went to teletype school in Norfolk, VA in the fall of 1984. I was supposed to extend 11 months because of the school. I took the RE4 code on my 214. Then reenlisted 2 years later.
I used to use one around 1980, but it had a "ticker tape" that you created first. Then you dialed the number and fed the tape through.
THIS sound is probably the most iconic computer sound in all of movie history. I don't care what it is. It could be a 100 XBOX GPU parallel network running AI software, and in the background they would still play this sound.
Yes sir those were the days ! Oh how I remember that machine.
I worked for Pacific Telephone starting the the '70s. The Model 28 Teletype was the best 100 baud machine ever built....cast frame parts, they'd last forever. The 33s and 35s...not so much, due to pressed sterl parts.
My USAF unit in the 70s was responsible for overhauling all Air Force Model 28 machines. We needed a 2,000 item bench stock for all the little screws, wipes, washers, etc. When done, they looked and worked like new.
It was ironic that, in the 80s, they were replaced by throwaway printers costing a few hundred bucks.
I recall someone using a teletype at an amatuer radio store to get news on paper. Good to watch.
73`s Randy From Costa Rica.. really is a great comunications system... like a nostalgia corner....
The sound of this reminds me of the old news programs... "This just in, 21 dead in 21 gun salute, film at 11."
Was a CG Telephone Tech grad school 1984. It was 2 months of my life will never get back. Did 21 years and never worked on one in the field. Some key words... spacing drum feed pal release link goes counter clockwise and away. The golden screw! Type box clutch. Why do I still have this crap in my head??!
I on the other hand worked on these 28 ASR's for 1975-1979 for the Coast Guard. Got good at it -repairs and overhauls-but preferred climbing towers. Hello William (Bill) Erwin, been awhile.
As an RM operator, I salute someone who could repair one of the beasts. I used them 1981-1991. D8 commcen still used a couple until at least '91.
I was a TT in the Coast Guard, these were my babies to work on.
Hi Rick, I also was a ttyrepairman/radioman back in the mid 60's...when you were discharged in 1980 the teletype Was on its way out...when I was discharged in 1967 my Navy training in tty repair led to a 2 year gratuity in moneyFor my time and a 35 year job with the phone company...the Model 40 line of crt's and line printers led to their demise....this mod28asr would have more dependable because its running at a slower speed, probably 75wpm..that's why it sounds soothing to some..my best guess about that "wheel looking thingy" is that it mightBe a gauge device...the tty has many adjustments that are critical...it appears to have wire loops around the Edge...but I can't be sure...
loved it, from Navy time and from CIA time. They sent me to TTY Corp school in Chicago. Could take them apart/repair.
Glad you could repair John. I used these in 1974 in the Air Force, Air Weather service. These ran 24/7.
US Navy Radioman! brings back memories!
Stand by for Flash,
That sound brings back memories. i used to work on the ASR 28s on shipboard and ground. The military always wanted them to run at 100 wpm, but they had very little traffic. The 60 wpm sounds sothing after being in roms with nachines going 100
der alteist
No 100 words per minute, I had to receive traffic with them. UGH.
60 WPM was usually the speed heard for teletype SFX on all-news radio stations "back then." 67 WPM sounds like that was heard, from 1969-70 to '77, on the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" at both the start and finish.
I worked in broadcast news from 1974 to 1990. This was a familiar sound. UPI and NWS.
Back in the late 70s these 28's were used by the National Numismatic Network (NNN). Subscribers were coin dealers and bullion brokers. Used on phone lines with bell 212A modem..units had motorized paper takeup. Remember boxes and boxes of canary yellow rolls....
I used to fix those in the Navy. More fun than anyone should be allowed to have. 🤪
We still had teletypes, UGC-77, on my ship into the early 2000's. And for the Navy Radiomen out their, we still had NAVMACS V2 until 2010.
I was a NAVMAC V5 Manager and Operator back in 87..USS Mount Whitney
i used these in Navy with perferator reading and creating pink tape.
But you had to destroy the pink chad separately cuz it was classified. 😛😛⚓🚢🇺🇸
@@melodyszadkowski5256 burn bags
Did you make a bowtie our of it? (di di dah dah di dit)
Or use a dozen R-390's at once?
@@mikeh2291 Butterflied and individual and bays.
@@donhaddix3770 CTT - NAVSECGRU Sabana Seca, PR Elephant Cage '68-'71. You?
Last one I used was at the Coast Guard 8th District commcen 1991. I enjoyed the sound and rhythm, though I wonder if my four Trigger Finger surgeries had origin in pounding the crap out of those stiff keys.
Hypnotic.
Magnificent machines.
Brings back good ..... No..... AWESOME memories..... Use to bring up the A.P. and UPI.....
I was a Telecommunications Systems Equipment Maintenance Specialist- 36350 aka Teletype Maintenance. Worked on on these beasties all around the world in the usaf. Can you say Reperferator?
Music to my ears
What is that wheel looking thingy on an arm attached to the copy holder?
Here is something that rather stunned me, we or I used to think technology was a benchmark for scientific progress, but it seems more that technology boots itself for the most part, meaning that in many cases we use something without fully understanding it, but here's the kicker, everything we enjoy today is from science acquired by 1927! Just keeps getting improved on, tubes to transistors so on, all of it was in place scientifically speaking by 1927 which goes a long way to explain why we still are 1. on gasoline and 2 do not have flying cars! Back in the 70's whenever they showed the future of the year 2000 we have flying damn cars!Do you remember when you saw your first princess phone? Lol they looked so futuristic and the first push button? Forget about it! Do people still use the old typewriters that came in their own little suitcaes? My dad pounded on his constantly, God how I wish I could read anything that he wriote back then.
We don't have flying cars because there is no interest in the study of the causes and science behind inertia and gravity. I would go as far as saying there is a structured ignorance of it. It really puzzles me.
Worked on tty's for almost 15 years. Went to TTY School in Norfolk, 1981. Chief Roamer instructed. Soon became so good at repair, and maint. I was sent to USS Nassau for Op's Desert Shield/Storm TAD tty repair. Still have a gift of a Main Shaft with clutches...when I retired. Anyone remember what "FRED" stood for at RM A School?
F***king Ridiculous Educational Device?
freeamericausa1 I think we were in the same class. I went through tty repair scol in 1981 then on to low level scol
I love the smell of 28's. Thanks for posting.
I am looking the switch 1F5A to my teletype UGC-74 or the keyboard 3A2A1 because i push some words and don't print it, some can help me? thanks
I could sleep like a baby with this M28.
A communications specialist radio message router. I made those things sing at Hickam and Wright Part AFBS. 119 WPM
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In the old days, many musical themes to TV news broadcasts were made to suggest one of these machines typing.
In the early black & white years, CBS Evening News simply piped in the sound of the teletypes at the end of the broadcast as they lowered the studio lights.. Teletypes just continued clacking away, because the news never stops..
Even Model 14 reperforators. Philadelphia station KYW NewsRadio 1060's teletype sound bore resemblance to those. Most used Model 15's. These babies - generally, Model 28 KSR's - were most likely the ones heard on WCBS Newsradio 88 in New York, behind their anchors, starting within the second half of 1972 and still heard as late as around 1987. (Their teletype room had three 28 KSR's all gathered together in a corner, that's probably the area where that recording was made.)
Spent may hours sitting in front of one of these in the Navy on board the USS Guadalcanal and repaired them on board the USS Carl Vinson. Hated the smell of the hot lubricating oil and the long distance it took to depress the keys could make your fingers muscle bound.
'And now the CBS evening news with Walter Cronkite'
Can you imagine spending an entire career in a large newspaper, radio or television newsroom, and then one day, they go quiet forever? That must have been unsettling for many.
De quoi parlait le texte? 😊
This is a UGC-6 fitted with either 60 or 67 word per minute gears.
Sounds like 368 OPM.
The sound of newsroom C 1960
i remember as a very young kid and even in my teens being transfixed by the one at my dad's work
spent 2 yrs at fairchild afb in 1968,we had 28asr's and ibm 7283's,can't located anything about the 7283,has anybody?
Remember when office promotions came in...on the mid watch and how long it took? Never looked forward to that mid watch. Laughing.
Mid watch with the teletypes and the frequencies went bad due to the fact that the sun was rising, and it ionized the ionosphere. It started around 4am and continued to about 6 am. We got a break from working until they came back up. Qsy VA 12..354 or something like that..
00:16 The action starts here
Who remembers the Kleinschmidt AN-FGC model 25? 'I love the smell of burnt selenium rectifier in the morning, smells like $@&# on toast." RYR RYR RYR RYR RYR RYR RYR RYR. Attn all 363s. If you know THE QUICK BROWN FOX YUMPED OVER THE LAXY DOGS BACK there is a computer simulation online you can dowoad that recreates and operates exactly like the real thing only faster and easier and is complete with sounds and settings are configurable. And the sounds are spot on. For info just comment on this post.
Oh God, I hated the Kleinschmidts!
Looks like AN/UGC-6 to me.
used for the Museum of Endangered sounds (savethesounds.info/)
It was literally the sound of the news. As a child I immediately new what the sound meant long before I understood exactly what was making it. Now, it is merely a forgotten anachronism. Progress takes its toll.
Any Corry Field graduates watching this (di di dah dah di dit).
I may have nightmares tonight! 500 card deck! Use card #s xx and xxx for.... 274/1C3 retired
Officer promotions Officer
Too noisy. Emails are more quieter.
Operator teletype Collins and airman Phil’s pa
1953 1954 not sure of the model but loved using it
OPSCOMM 80s
What is that wheel looking thingy on an arm attached to the copy holder?
Hypnotic.
Especially RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY.
Anyone agree?
What is that wheel looking thingy on an arm attached to the copy holder?
May be a compass to find azimuth of radar coverage.