[GreenKeys] INKTRONIC on EBay

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it would most likely be a static  display... perhaps  with  a  screen  of  
come telecine'd  filmrunning next to  it  showing one in operation  - ed 
sharpe archvisit  for  smecc
 
 
 
In a message dated 6/26/2016 7:41:18 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu writes:

On Sun,  Jun 26, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Lester Veenstra <m0ycm at veenstras.com>  
wrote:
>  
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1966-Vintage-Antique-TELETYPE-INKTRONIC-Receive-Only-Set-TelePrinter-Parallel/231990393069?hash=item3603b478ed:g:TIwAAOSwOVpX
bZu5

Brings  back so many memories of sticky blue ink that smeared over 
everything.   On the other hand, the whole idea of electrostatic deflection of 
flying ink  drops to make them paint letters on the page is genuinely cool, and 
the  machine could print so much faster than all but one other printer we had 
in  Department 1227 of Bell Labs.  That printer was a wet-process 
Tektronics  graphics printer.  Which do you prefer:  A printer that runs at 1200  
baud and gets little blue indellible ink spots all over your hands and  
clothing if you handle the printout too soon after printing, or a printer that  
runs at 1200 baud and fills the room with organic solvent fumes while  
delivering the printout wet into your hands?

I used the damned things  in the summer of 1973-74 when I worked at Murray 
Hill.  Department 1227  was Acoustics Research, under Max Matthews.

I do hope some museum gets  the thing, but I think we're lucky that getting 
ink for it is likely to be  difficult, and therefore, restoration to 
operation is unlikely.

Doug Jones
jones at cs.uiowa.edu
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