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

E. hanyou at xsmail.com
Thu Aug 25 17:01:37 EDT 2022


Last call on the wire recorders — I haven’t had any takers since the photos I posted here.


> On Aug 25, 2022, at 8:04 am, Mike Arrington <bn.mikea at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Here's a clip from the television show The Invaders, aired 26 Mar 1968.  It shows a bit of the IBM Selectric Programmer in action.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 5:47 PM 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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