[GreenKeys] Fwd: Looking for an IBM 2741 or similar

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switching type balls from different coded machines was always a great prank 
 to play on some unsuspecting  target <grin!>  Ed#
 
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/10/2016 1:53:25 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu writes:

On Aug  10, 2016, at 11:22 AM, Richard wrote:

> Just to be clear: An IBM  2741 is not a teletype; it's a Selectric
> typewriter mechanism with IO  circuitry running at 34.5 baud.

And yet, somehow able to achieve 15  characters per second with 8-bit 
EBCDIC data communications.  I used them  quite a bit for a while, and remember 
the solid chunking clatter of their  typing, quite different from the sound 
of a Teletype.  Also, you could  change the typeball in order to completely 
baffle the next person to use  it.

Doug Jones
jones at cs.uiowa.edu
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