[GreenKeys] Hmmm, why did they do it that way?

[Daniel Jones]

The only reason I could think of would be that lack of needing to switch it once it was set. Maybe they found that people would switch the easy access switches and burn out the magnets.  

Or it was the age old problem of engineering not thinking about technician at the end of the line. 

My 2 1/4 cents 

Daniel


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> On Nov 15, 2024, at 08:58, John, W9DDD <w9ddd at tapr.org> wrote:
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> Sometimes the mind just takes off on a tangent.
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> On several 14 reperfs and tape printers I'd seen there's a nice switch back near the selector magnets which switches the connect between series and parallel.
> 
> I don't recall if I've ever seen that on a 15, but it might have existed?
> 
> So why when they did the 28 ASR/KSR did they bury a terminal strip in the bottom of the electrical service unit, LESU, so that you have to tear the machine apart and flip the LESU upside down to change between series and parallel?
> 
> On the 28/35 typing reperf and tape printer, you change it right at the selector magnets, no switch, but easy to get at.
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