Curious; I _WAS_ the radio operator for a while in 1970/71 in P-3As in VP8; originally Pax River, but we moved to Brunswick, ME. I do not recall seeing a teletype machine there.
As I said, I don't remember seeing them in the P-3A models that VP8 had. They were the first squadron to transition from P-2s, so by then, VP-8 had the oldest A models in the fleet.
Hah. In my Navy of 1965 to 1991 the only modern part was from 1982 to 1991. That was when I served on ships with tactical data systems (TDS) for war-fighting. The FFG's TDS was powered by two 1970s AN/UYK-7 computers. These computers were "talked to" by a WWII TTY...a mechanical typewriter made of maybe 8000 moving parts. Rugged? Reliable? Meh. But no problem, though we only had one TTY for the TDS system we had an old IBM style perforated paper tape that could be fed into a reader that read the "coded" light coming through the holes punched in the paper ticker-tape. It was a lo-o-ong piece of paper tape. The Modern Aegis system in 1991? Hey, just add another dozen AN/UYK-7 computers...they were good enough to get men to the moon in the 1960s. When I was on that FFG in the 80s we'd have killed for a cheap Radio Shack plastic keyboard or a floppy disk reader. Floppy disks were "da bomb" in 1982.
But who wants to hear a P-3-er bellyache? You guys had ATM's in your aircraft and got per diem to stay in 5 star hotels when you deployed. But I felt bad for the NFO's because it was the Bus Driver (the Aviator...they don't want to be called 'pilots') who got the DFC or DSM. You guys were lucky to get an LoA signed by an O-5. You had $800 toilet seats too. Ours were stainless steel. They'd make you clinch up in the winter. ☺
LOL, I know the paper tape game… sigh… You had the UYK-7, we had the CP-901… Re five star, ummm, not so much… EVER, well except for that time in Hong Kong…
I wish I could remember the name of the guy I worked at Grumman with. He was in a reserve squadron (he was a pilot) and flew one weekend a month and the two weeks a year. This was back in 87, so I suspect you may have known him.
You've been "off"longer than that...;)
Tank you, tank you… :-)
Curious; I _WAS_ the radio operator for a while in 1970/71 in P-3As in VP8; originally Pax River, but we moved to Brunswick, ME. I do not recall seeing a teletype machine there.
Interesting Ken, I know we had them in the Bs in 73-77.
As I said, I don't remember seeing them in the P-3A models that VP8 had. They were the first squadron to transition from P-2s, so by then, VP-8 had the oldest A models in the fleet.
Hah. In my Navy of 1965 to 1991 the only modern part was from 1982 to 1991. That was when I served on ships with tactical data systems (TDS) for war-fighting. The FFG's TDS was powered by two 1970s AN/UYK-7 computers. These computers were "talked to" by a WWII TTY...a mechanical typewriter made of maybe 8000 moving parts. Rugged? Reliable? Meh. But no problem, though we only had one TTY for the TDS system we had an old IBM style perforated paper tape that could be fed into a reader that read the "coded" light coming through the holes punched in the paper ticker-tape. It was a lo-o-ong piece of paper tape. The Modern Aegis system in 1991? Hey, just add another dozen AN/UYK-7 computers...they were good enough to get men to the moon in the 1960s. When I was on that FFG in the 80s we'd have killed for a cheap Radio Shack plastic keyboard or a floppy disk reader. Floppy disks were "da bomb" in 1982.
But who wants to hear a P-3-er bellyache? You guys had ATM's in your aircraft and got per diem to stay in 5 star hotels when you deployed. But I felt bad for the NFO's because it was the Bus Driver (the Aviator...they don't want to be called 'pilots') who got the DFC or DSM. You guys were lucky to get an LoA signed by an O-5. You had $800 toilet seats too. Ours were stainless steel. They'd make you clinch up in the winter. ☺
LOL, I know the paper tape game… sigh… You had the UYK-7, we had the CP-901… Re five star, ummm, not so much… EVER, well except for that time in Hong Kong…
I wish I could remember the name of the guy I worked at Grumman with. He was in a reserve squadron (he was a pilot) and flew one weekend a month and the two weeks a year. This was back in 87, so I suspect you may have known him.