[GreenKeys] 750 wpm Teletype in 1956 - AN/FGC-36

[Harold Hallikainen]

Fascinating history!

On Fri, August 21, 2026 6:16 pm, Jim Haynes via GreenKeys wrote:
> That was most likely the summer of 1958.  That was not quite the machine
> as I saw it but I was told Teletype wasn't interested in making a product
> of it.  By 1959 a one-nozzle demo of what became the Inktronic was
> generating all the excitement.

The first inkjet printer I ever saw was a single jet printer made by
Olivetti. As I read about it at
https://share.google/aimode/En3kGaSPxvimcJztq , I see it was not reall
"ink," but carbon in a vaporized binder. I just remember the print head
flying back and forth with the resulting "wavy" type.


> I've been musing a lot lately on the Teletype 28/35 ASR sets and their
> equivalent in electronic ASR sets like the UGC 74 and 129 and that other
> set that was discussed here recently.  Why couldn't Teletype have made a
> daisywheel printer? they had a patent on the concept back in the 1930s.  I
> tend to think the Model 37 was a complete waste of resources. Or maybe
> Teletype could have bought the G.E. Terminet 300/1200 since
> G.E. didn't go anywhere with it.  Or could have hired Vic Poor at the
> time he left Frederick Electronics and went to Datapoint.

I had a daisy wheel printer in the 1980s connected to my Cromemco CP/M
computer. I wrote manuals using WordStar and printed them on that printer.

My first CRT terminal was a Lear Siegler ADM-1. It had a huge circuit
board full of small DIP ICs. It's pretty impressive that they got it to
work.

> Let me suggest a book for your recreational reading.
> Datapoint : the lost story of the Texans who invented the personal
> computer revolution by Wood, Lamont

Thanks! On order!

Harold





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