Electronemchanical The Teletype Model 28 is a product line of page printers, typing and non-typing tape perforator and tape reperforators, fixed head single contact and pivoted head multi-contact transmitter-distributors, and receiving selector equipment. Teletype Corporation's Model 28 line of communications terminals was first delivered to the US Military in 1951 and commercially introduced in 1953. Teletype Corporation discontinued Model 28 production in 1981. The Model 35 line, built for ASCII, used a similar mechanical structure and shared numerous parts.