[GreenKeys] 28ASR Keyboard Question

[Don Robert House]

>Hello Group,
>
>In preparation for making some punched tape for a greenkeys demo 
>that a friend will be doing soon I was working with my 28ASR that I 
>haven't spent a lot of time with since I acquired it over a year 
>ago.  After an afternoon of fiddling with the wiring, pulling the 
>punch out and cleaning a paper path that had some crusted yuck on 
>it, and general futzing and swearing over it I have it running just 
>dandy.  However I noticed that the keyboard's space bar has an 
>autorepeat to it if you press the bar way down, almost like a second 
>touch on an organ keyboard.
>
>None of my other 28s (three KSRs) do this.  Is this a feature of the 
>ASR keyboard or an add-on option, or...?  And, can I disable it -- 
>easily?  I am not that good of a typist and find myself getting lots 
>of extra spaces at times because I mash the bar down too hard.  I 
>peered into the keyboard mechanism whilst typing and saw what was 
>getting activated when I would push the space bar down all the way, 
>but didn't see readily what I could do to keep the repeat from 
>kicking in.
>
>Any thoughts or ideas from the ones who serviced these in their 
>heyday?  Oh, and you can see a photo of it and some of my other 
>greenkey machines at http://www.pce.net/dalderdi/telegrph.htm
>
>Tnx es 73,
>
>Doug, KA2WFT
>
>NNNN


NICE SITE Doug!

I have information on the repeat space mod kit but it is in San 
Diego.  Write me again in the middle of January!

Happy New Year
Don
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Don Robert House
North American Data Communications Museum
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Computer Museum of America
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