[GreenKeys] Two wire recorders available... anyone interested?

[Nick England]

Memories. Back in the late 1960s, our college newspaper had one of those
IBM mag tape composer systems. Submitting an essay paper that was
left/right justified with proportional spacing, (and italics and bold)
would wow the teacher and could be worth an extra letter grade. The
Selectric would pause for you to swap in italic and bold type balls.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 9:11 PM Christian Gauger-Cosgrove <
captainkirk359 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow, an MT/ST. Those are extraordinarily rare. Like "I've not heard of
> any of them surviving in the wild" rare. Also, I think I saw someone
> either on the Classiccmp mailing list or Discord server that was
> looking for a magtape Selectric control unit.
>
> Of course, the same magtape unit was used with the Magnetic Tape
> Selectric COmposer, which is an even more rare beast (the Selectric
> Composer was proportionally spaced, not fixed pitch like a regular
> typewriter).
>
> Regards,
> Christian
>
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 at 18:47, E. <hanyou at xsmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I’ll hold onto those machines… have already had a few inquiries.  I’ll
> go through them a bit later — have something going on tonight, so thank you
> much for the interest!
> >
> > I found a photo of that Selectric programmer.  It’s to the right of the
> typewriter in this article (photo also attached):
> >
> >
> https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/12/the-first-true-word-processor-was-invented-by-ibm/
> >
> > The bad thing is that it’s pretty buried in the dumpster and is probably
> a bit banged up by now.  I think the other end of the programming cable
> interface is somewhere in the dumpster too.  I’m guessing it’s near the
> weight of a 19.
> >
> >
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