[Collins] Unbelievable

C E catman351 at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 30 13:27:07 EST 2005


Jerry:
Are you sure about that???? From what I gather, he
commented positively about the tactile "feedback"
mechanism the old IBM Selectrics utilized that
"rewarded" a typist with a form of feedback-response
for touching a key to produce a keystrike. 

Cal. P.S. I wonder if that product advertised on EBay
comes in S-line gray or St. James Grey? 

--- Gerald <geraldj at ispwest.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 09:16 -0800, C E wrote:
> > Very appropriate post! I like. Now I wonder how
> many
> > thousands of dollars can I get for an old 1960's
> > vintage IBM typewriter from the Collins Dallas,
> Texas
> > plant that old Art himself allegedly used?????
> Cal.
> > N6KYR/8 
> 
> The Art Collins I knew at Dallas wouldn't have
> admitted knowing what an
> IBM typewriter was. He had computer programmers to
> do that work.
> 
> -- 
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ, Technical Advisor to the CRA
> All content copyright Dr. Gerald N. Johnson,
> electrical engineer
> 
>
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