[GreenKeys] FAA Teletypewriter Network 1959

[Jim Cooper]

On 4 Oct 2020 at 10:07, Nick England wrote:

> Hi Jim. Do you have any photos of your amazing system?
> Best regards
> Nick

I wish now that I had made a point to get some, 
but back then there were no iphones with cameras !! 
And I was the single supervising engineer with about 
15 technicians working on the install, so I wasn't 
thinking much about photos ...  AND (I didn't describe
it in my previous post) but it was a LONG weekend ... 

I went to work Friday morning at the usual time; at 
1700 the techs and I headed for the Pan Am building
and I was there NON-STOP until about 1400 on Sunday, 
at which time my interest was to get home and sleep ! 
(As an aside, this turned out to be a really major change
in my work attitude ...  on my expense report, I turned 
in for three meals on Saturday ... since I worked the 
full 24 hours straight thru.  The VP of ITT rejected 
it, saying they did not authorize three meal payments 
in one day.  After that, I decided in such a circumstance
I would just send the techs home at 2100 and come back 
around 0900 and if things didn't get finished then too 
bad ... )  Again, I sure wish I had made a point of getting 
some nifty photos. 

I did a quick google search to see if maybe there was 
something about the tty comm center, but all I found was 
a documentary about what took over and replaced my 
giant mechanical switching center! 

https://youtu.be/4ZigI893NWw

Hard for M28 R/Ts to compete with that ... 

Jim C