[GreenKeys] DURA Selectric ASR terminals free

[Dave Wade]

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> From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net <greenkeys-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of John Nagle
> Sent: 13 December 2019 22:04
> To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] DURA Selectric ASR terminals free
> 
> > 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

Its probably  tilt and rotate code. IBM mainframes can talk this over a
serial link...

Dave


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