[GreenKeys] Teletype spotted

[Robert Downs]

I doubt it.  Probably all that the Prop Master had available that day.  Like movies showing some grunt with a BC-622 supposedly talking to his CO who has a BC-1000.

Robert Downs


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From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Haynes
Sent: Wednesday, December 5, 2018 21:32
To: Paul Heller
Cc: Greenkeys
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Teletype spotted

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018, Paul Heller wrote:

> I was watching an episode of M*A*S*H entitled "Tell It to the Marines  
> (Season 9).  About 17 minutes in, Pierce goes into the press office 
> and there is UN War Correspondent typing on a model 26.
>
I wonder if there is any authenticity to that.  No new Model 26 machines had been made since the late 1930s, according to what I've read; and it's not the kind of machine you'd want to take into the field in war anyway.
Which is to say not especially rugged and requires its own special table to handle the paper roll.

In fact it wasn't long after the Korean War that the Bell System started taking Model 26s out of service.