[GreenKeys] Was Model 40 - GE Terminet 300 - GE Terminet 30

Mattis Lind mattislind at gmail.com
Sat Jun 13 14:36:53 EDT 2020


Den lör 13 juni 2020 kl 20:19 skrev David I. Emery <die at dieconsulting.com>:

> On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 09:57:00AM -0700, John wrote:
> >
> > In the late 70s I found 3 GE Terminet 300 terminals on a pallet at a
> > local surplus yard - I paid $100 for them and they were kind enough to
> > fork them onto my truck.
>

Speaking of GE Terminet. Back in the late 70s my father brought home a GE
Terminet 1200. Essentially the same but without the keyboard. I
remember that it printed rather quickly.

http://vintagecomputer.org/itemsavailable/2014/GE_TermiNet-1200/P1010091.JPG

Then at a later time he found a GE Terminet 30. Does anyone have something
about the GE Terminet 30?
Manuals?

https://i.imgur.com/8Q0Mf2d.jpg

/Mattis


>
>         I had one of these (from Honeywell Surplus in the Boston area)
> briefly shortly before I bought the model 40s... and did very little
> with it because I found a 40 before I got around to playing with the
> Terminet.   The 40s did upper/lower case and IIRC the model of Terminet
> I had was only U/C...
>
>         Model 40s were used by the wire services in that era with their
> 1200 baud "high speed" data feed... so they supported the same character
> set more or less the old model 20s did... (plus and minus some
> variations in pallets on the print chain specific to specific
> applications ordered for a particular printer).    They could do both
> sprocket and regular  roll/fanfold paper (in the 80 character model),
> the 132 character one was sprocket fed.
>
>         Like the Terminets they had a capability for forms support...
>
>
> --
>   Dave Emery N1PRE/AE, die at dieconsulting.com  DIE Consulting, Weston,
> Mass 02493
> "An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable weatherbeaten
> 'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted pole -
> in
> celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be now
> either."
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> GreenKeys mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/greenkeys
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:GreenKeys at mailman.qth.net
>
> >>> Jordan Spencer Cunningham's GreenKeys Search Tool:
> https://teletype.net/gksearch
> >>> 2002-to-present greenkeys archive:
> http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/
> >>> 1998-to-2001 greenkeys archive:
> http://mailman.qth.net/archive/greenkeys/greenkeys.html
> >>> Randy Guttery's 2001-to-2009 GreenKeys Search Tool:
> http://comcents.com/tty/greenkeyssearch.html
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
> Message delivered to mattislind at gmail.com
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/greenkeys/attachments/20200613/ba0eaab9/attachment.html>


More information about the GreenKeys mailing list