[Boatanchors] IBM Selectric Terminal

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael D. Harmon" <mharmon at att.net>
To: "Boatanchors Mailing List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] IBM Selectric Terminal


>A Selectric typewriter doesn't have the interface 
>electronics to allow
> the keyboard and type mechanisms to be connected to an 
> external data
> bus.   It's an electromechanical device.

    A very long time ago I remember a readout made of an 
early IBM electric typwriter, the kind with a type basket 
and actuated by a roller. I think it sat on something that 
worked the key levers to type. My memory is that it was 
driven by a Non-Linear Systems DVM but its so long ago now 
that I can't be sure. Either the DVM or typing adaptor had 
stepping switches in it. I wonder if anyone knows what this 
was.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com