[GreenKeys] stunt boxes

[Don Robert House]

You wrote:

>I just resurrected a Navy Model 28KSR that has the original
>"Mark 1" typing unit and keyboard. This poor old thing had
>been sitting in a warehouse for probably over 20 years. It
>has the aluminum cabinet that sits on shock mounts. A little
>oil and dusting, and it took right off. The typing unit is
>so old that it's the type that won't fit into an ASR since it
>has the extended left front rail that would bang into
>the perforator. I learned that the hard way many years
>ago...my first 28 was a Mark 1 and when I tried to upgrade
>it into an ASR configuration, it wouldn't fit!
>These things will be running long after we're all gone.
>
>Jack WA2HWJ

Jack,

We had two Mark 1 28 KSRs on private line service. One was the SCATS 
machine at the Williams Brothers Pipeline. ( I never did learn how 
the dial worked. We have a SCATS dial at the museum.) The other Mark 
1 was at the American Wilbert Vault company, a manufacturer of 
concrete burial vaults.  The neat thing about that machine was it was 
the newest machine on their network, all of the others were Model 
15s.  The really neat thing about all of their machines, both 15s and 
the 28, was they all had front plate manual tabulator mod kits.  The 
only customer we had that could set their own horizontal tabs.

Don