[GreenKeys] Selectric Printer

[David Burns]

Indeed, I sit corrected.  A university lab where I worked had a 2741 
wired up to a PDP-11 that was driven @ 134.5 through a parallel 
interface (one line of a parallel interface) and it was driven by a 
modified driver that did ASCII to the EBCDIC-type code conversion.

It worked, but the terminal was so beaten up by the time we got it that 
it didn't print very pretty, sad to say.

On 11/23/2014 1:30 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
> The Selectric and related terminals (1052, 2741, and "I/O Selectric")
> are NOT ASCII machines.

> Hmm. I wonder if he'd be able and/or willing to modify a Selectric III
> as a terminal, I don't have any form of Selectric, but I could
> probably get my hands on a Selectric III relatively easily. And I love
> how crisp the output of a Selectric looks.
I had a long chat with Mr. Skillman before I engaged him to convert an 
IBM Selectric I to Dvorak keyboard (which can be done by replacing parts 
in the keyboard matrix in a different order).

He is /extremely /knowledgeable having spent time at IBM as a mechanical 
engineer on the original Selectric design team.

I don't know if he'd do "add-ons", but he has all the skills, lubricants 
and equipment needed to take a frozen-solid Selectric and make it run again.

Nice guy.

..Dave in Boston

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