[GreenKeys] Teletype KSR28 Letters Key

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Actually, some accountants are more devious than that.  I'd bet a beer 
(local, not premium import) that if you get the machine working, it will unshift 
on space.  I think I recall reading once that this (unshift on space, not 
removing the Letters key) was a standard stunt box capability, originally for 
use on very noisy HF tactical circuits.  But really, I can't seriously 
imagine why anyone with more than room temperature IQ would remove the Letters 
key.

In a message dated 08/19/2012 22:45:24 PM Central Daylight Time, 
k1lky at earthlink.net writes: 
> On Aug 19, 2012, at 7:03 PM, B M wrote:
> 
> >Did all KSR-28's have the 'Letters' key?  On a machine I recently  
> >acquired, the key is not there. When I peer into the hole on the  
> >keyboard, I just see straight to the bottom of the keyboard tray.   
> >Could the key and actuator have both been removed, or not  
> >installed?  The 'Figs' key is there.
> 
> Barry,
> 
> I think that was a specially modified machine meant for accountants.   
> They love numbers and hate letters, especially if formed into words.   
> So you hit the Figs key once and you can't get it back into letters  
> mode.
> 
> That way, no one else can figure out what the accountant meant to  
> say.  Normal for them.
> 
> Roy
> 

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
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