[GreenKeys] Model 15 startup

[George B. Hutchison]

Yeah, guess I are a failure.

However, during my 3 1/2 years with RCA I averaged about .8 model 
15's per day, and also had model 20 page printers, model 20 
reperforators, 28s, a few 32s, lots of 33s, a model 38, IBM 
selectrics as I/O machines for Air West, CIT Financial Services and 
Wizard of Avis, Diablo Daisy Wheel Printers, Extel Page Printers and 
reperfs, Model 19s at UPI Bureaus, and drove an average of about 200 
miles per day. Territory ran from La Grande, Oregon to American 
Falls, Idaho  (east and west) and from McCall, Idaho to Burns, Oregon 
(north and south).

Nationally I had one of the lowest failure rates, and the best 
numbers for first visit repairs.

I think Sheldon Daitch can attest to the fact that long days and 
sometimes into the late nights were pretty much average for us jerks 
that did what we could to keep the machines running.

We had to deal with such things as an FM station that had so much RF 
swirling, bouncing, and reflecting off the walls and getting into the 
Lenkurt 25A screwing up the copy one minute and then as the 
reflection pattern changed would right itself, so to speak, and then 
the copy would clear up, (ultimately the data set had to be moved to 
the owner's parents' house 1/2 mile away) and while there get a call 
from the asshole news director of KTFI who was screaming that the 15 
was all screwed up and wanted IMMEDIATE service. After leaving the FM 
station and 275 miles of driving from La Grande to Twin Falls to find 
that he had put the ribbon in backwards. All this on a Sunday, then 
back to home in Boise, another 135 miles.

All I know is that things of which I write worked for me.

But, as a couple folks have pointed out, apparently I don't know 
diddly, so I'll shut up.

W7TTY