[BC] the old board op mentality

[radioranger]

And in my first job in radio in March 1964 I was wondering around the
newsroom on Sunday afternoon, saw the 'tinsel' and thought that it must have
been left over from Christmas, so I removed it---the WRONG thing to do, as
the station was a daytimer, so no one caught the paper jam until the next
morning around 6am.  I didn't get fired, but I sure got ribbed a lot.
Apparently the machine was so clogged up that the AP had to bring in a
replacement machine from Des Moines, 70 miles away.

Steve Brown
Radio Rangers
Minneapolis

From: 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...