[GreenKeys] DURA Selectric ASR terminals free

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Fri Dec 13 17:03:50 EST 2019


> From: John Lawson<john at tubetestingpros.com>
> Subject: [GreenKeys] DURA Selectric ASR terminals free
> 
> I have a couple of "DURA" Selectric ASR terminals.? I also have some
> limited documentation on them. Neither of them work as far as I know. I
> tried to run the one in the pic when I first got it, but it's jammed -
> so on the shelf it went.
> 
> They appear to be an 8-level code, dunno if ASCII, EBCDIC, or what.

     I once used one of those things and wrote a converter for its paper
tape. It had its own code, with upper/lower case shifts, neither
ASCII nor EBCDIC. No idea how it interfaced to anything else, or if
it even could.

				John Nagle


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