[GreenKeys] simulators and TTYs

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Yes,  we did that to  our office administrator  also  at   our  computer  
company   in the  early  80s  as  we had  some of the non standard   balls   
.. probably  one  GE  used  on  the  IBM typers of  their  computer  systems 
or  one  off  the IBM reservation  terminals . We  would  postpone   
looking at it  for a  fix  until AFTER  she  went to  the rest room whereas we 
would switch out the ball  to a regular  one...  and upon her  return  go over 
and  have her   turn the   IBM Selectric on  and show us and  of   course we 
 would see the  then normal type and  exclaim   OH... WHAT  PROBLEM!  <evil 
grin>


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<greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net> on  behalf of Jeffrey D Angus <jdangus at att.net>
Sent: Saturday, December  14, 2013 6:17 AM
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Subject: Re: [GreenKeys]  simulators and TTYs

On 12/13/2013 8:34 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove  wrote:
> You could always look at the old UNIXes (V5, V6 and V7) and see  if
> they ever supported having an ITA2/USTTY machine as a user terminal  (I
> think V7 may have support for the I/O Selectric, but don't quote me  on
> that)
I have to share this.

While working at TRW in  1973-77, I acquired one of the "special"
golf balls for an IBM I/O  Selectric.

Periodically, I would sneak into the office and switch balls  on the
secretary's typewriter.

Of course, it printed gibberish. They  would call the lab where I
worked and asked if I could fix it for  them.

I'd head up to the office, "Tell ya what, why don't you  hustle
down to the cafeteria and get me a doughnut and a cup of
coffee.  I'll have it fixed by the time you get back."

I did that for two  years.

Jeff-1.0
wa6fwi

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