[GreenKeys] A KS-series tool I wish I had

[Jones, Douglas W]

One of the tools I picked up when I worked at Bell Labs 40
years ago was a peach stick.  Yes, a stick made of peach wood,
but lovingly crafted by gnomes somewhere, with one end tapered
to a flat spatula, the other end tapered to a blunt point.  In
the center, it had a KS number.  It always struck me as one of
the lowest-tech tools, yet is was just right for prying into
bundles of wires without posing any threat to the insulation.

Sadly, at some point, I pried into something too hard, and
broke the stick.  I'd love to find a new one, in part because
it's just the right tool to use to poke around in an old
wire-wrapped backplane to try to reverse engineer the various
modifications people made to it.  Does anyone have one?
Does anyone remember the KS number?  Does anyone have the
dimensions?

(From memory, my guess is that it was 8 inches long, and
about 1/4 inch diameter.  The middle cylindrical section
was about 3 inches long, tapering down to a 1/16 inch
diameter spherical point on one end and a 1/32 inch thick
flat on the other end, rounded to 1/8 inch radius and all
polished to a high shine.)

		Doug Jones
		jones at cs.uiowa.edu