After I graduated from college, BS Math/Comp Sci, I went to work for ITT Federal Electric at VAFB.

I wrote software for various project and later on I worked on converting the message switching system in bldg 7000 over to AUTODIN.

No sir. Its gone the wayside for a standard e-mail-like system.

Oh my god, they got rid of the teletype machines! How could they do that!

No, they haven't gotten rid of Teletypes, they still live on in the minds of all of us TTY repairmen and probably all of the operators, along with all of the Kleinschmidts and the KL-&s. Those of us who really loved our jobs, no doubt still could repair them now no matter how long we've been out so they still live, long in our minds...at least in mine.

I actually know a guy that has a couple of Mod 40's in his garage. He bought them from DRMO. I think I can still do the PMI without looking at a TO.

Bump.

I just ran accross this thread. I remember picking up and AUTODIN packages destined for AFPC in 80 column cards from the comm center and delivering them to Data Automation or DPI for processing (1970's - 80's). I also remember having to do disaster recovery for over 5000 cards using what would be similar to today's manual label maker guns (ouch). There was no such thing as a backspace once you made a mistake, lol. I sure was glad when we were able to do the same using virtual images (90's).

No, the USAF does not use AUTODIN. The system is supposedly dead, however vestiges of it are still around. Actually saw an ad for COMM CENTER personnel familiar in AUTODIN last year.

Wish I remembered where that assignment was.