[BC] the old board op mentality

[Mark D Mobile]

LOL.  And in those winter days the air was dry and the static built up.  The 
teletype was usually adorned with a copper "brush" that looked like 
Christmas tinsel...was supposed to drain static build-up from the paper so 
it wouldn't pile up...

Mark Durenberger
On the Road

-----Original Message----- 
From: SteveOrdinetz

Don't forget if you were the sign-on jock clearing the AP (or UPI) wire. 
This was especially fun in the winter if you were a daytimer and had signed 
off at 4:30 the previous afternoon.  Seemed almost every day the paper would 
bunch up and jam the teletype machine so the last 12 hours of copy were all 
printed on one line.