[Boatanchors] IBM Selectric Terminal

[J. Forster]

As a freshman, I was very taken with an IBM chain printer "singing"
"She'll be Coming Round the Mountain" on a 709 machine.

-John

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> Good point, Drew!
>
> There is something to be said about using one's other senses other than
> just
> the eyes.  I remember using old DECWriter II & III's on Northern
> Telelcom's
> DMS-100.  You could "hear" a problem log being printed out. After a while
> you could discern  different types of error reports being printed just by
> the sound of the mechanical printer.
>
> Go for it!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Drew P.
> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 2:10 AM
> To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] IBM Selectric Terminal
>
>
> On Keith Densmore's plan to convert an IBM Selectric typewriter to a
> computer printer/terminal,  Glenn Little wrote:
>
> [snipped]
>
> "I would not consider this to be a viable, current, output device."
>
> Maybe not, but it is not much less viable than the use of some examples of
> our beloved vacuum tube equipment for modern-day radio communication.
>
> What a Selectric-turned-printer WOULD have is "Soul" and lots of it -
> orders
> of magnitude more than any current LASER or inkjet printer.  Imagine the
> clackey-clackey-clack, just like on the old CBS Evening News, and the hot
> oil smell when printing out a long document.  Ahhhhhhhh, smells
> like....Victory.
>
> Drew
>
>
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