[GreenKeys] GreenKeys Digest, Vol 104, Issue 39

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Jim:

Didn't the 35 take up twice the floor area of the 33?

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke
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> From: Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
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> Burroughs used a 28RO in its 220 machine - with the character set all
> modified to use the native character set of the computer.  This was long
> before ASCII.  For the later 5500 model they used a 33KSR, also with
> a modified character set.  This replaced some non-IBM electric typewriter
> they had tried as a console machine and I assume either found too
> unreliable or too expensive.  Still it's hard to understand why on a
> million dollar computer they used a 33 instead of a 35.  Univac used
> 35s for some of their console printers with, as I recall, their own
> keyboard.
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> I remember a Model 35 ASR used with a Data General minicomputer and there
> was some modification they made to the LXD reader.  If I remember
> correctly it involved a rubber band.
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