“I was a nuts and bolts guy who worked 20yrs, with teletypewriters and their systems “
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Well, I did have a 15 and a 19 that I used for RTTY.
I did know to plug them in, both power and signal, haha.
I was trained on 15s, but I doubt I worked on a dozen. The old timers jumped on them. Models 28, 33, 35, 37, 40, 43, 4540 and ALL their attendant systems, 8 to 5 dataspeed converters and ALL data from vacuum tubes to digital. Finished out my career with a decade of cable splicing.
I loved working on those 28s though. They were my bread and butter. Here’s one woking at only 60 speed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bmnyOTqj3g
I took the motor out of mine and it is now a polishing machine
I chunked the rest