[GreenKeys] Selectric I/O [OT]

[David Kirk]

That place in Philadelphia ... I remember traveling to that place in the 
late 70s with my father and his friend/son. We brought back close to a 
dozen of those selectrics with some sort of cart reader/writer on the 
right-hand side. Hauled them back in the Chevy Beauville van, loaded 
down! The picture of crew returning with the goods is here:

http://www.truedataworks.com/DSC04267.JPG

(I'm the kid in the white shirt in the back). The selectric was an 
upgrade of sorts from the teletypes as I remember being able to switch 
the golf ball print heads and I think they were faster. Certainly not as 
pretty sounding as the Teletypes, but I'm pretty sure they were faster. 
Had them hooked up to the trusty Commodore PET in short order and had 
them for a lot of years.


On 1/3/2011 12:33 PM, boatanchor at martasystems.com wrote:
> 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
>>
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