[GreenKeys] Model 19 Memories...

[David Stinson]

I can still hear it.  1974.  A young man’s bedroom.   In the corner, a big black hulk, looking something like a buffalo taking a nap, sat whirring and brooding to itself.  Then, precisely at 3:30 PM, the symphony begain: 

 “chug chug chug chug WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP..” (RYRYRYRY) “DING! zzzzzzzzTHUNK!”   “chug chug chug  WHAP WHAP WHAP chug WHAP WHAP WHAP chug WHAP WHAP WHAP chug”   “WHOP WHAP chug WHAP thunk! WHIP thunK! WHIP WHAP!’  (QST QST QST DE W1AW…)  and my mother yelling:  “Daaaa-VID!  Close the door!!!”

 

To a young man enthralled by the mysteries of the ether, the smell of ozone and machine oil,  it was pure magic.  Like having your own personal locomotive.  I miss that beast.

73 Dave S.

 

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