[GreenKeys] Selectric I/O [OT]

[boatanchor at martasystems.com]

In 1979, the wife and I made an epic journey from Gaithersburg to an old
warehouse in a very scary part Philadelphia to buy one of these. They had a
huge pile (literally) of IBM selectrics equipped with computer interfaces...
for $100 bucks or so, we picked out a good one and got the heck out of
there.

I don't remember if the one we got was EBCDIC, but I do remember getting it
working with my home-built Z80 and CP/M.

Pretty cool printer, thanks for the memories. Sure wish I could remember
more details.

john wb6azp




On 12/31/2010 08:05 PM, Keith Densmore wrote:
> Power to the Green in 2011,
>
> I came across an interesting old advertisement on Ebay for   a IBM
Selectric
> Terminal. This unit was put together by a company called Data-Trans and
was
> a 300 baud printing terminal.
> The ad is here
> 190361445421
>
> Any list members have, use,  or even know of the existence of any of these
> old terminals? I know IBM had several versions of Selectric Teminals over
> the years but most used non standard codes. But it might be possible to do
a
> data conversion with some modern electronics.  It would be cool to see one
> running with HeavyMetal. Just trying to dream up more weird projects for
the
> new year.
>
> 73,
> Keith ve3ts
>