Daisywhell typewriter emulating a TTY

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Wed Apr 10 10:39:07 CDT 2019


On 4/10/19 8:16 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
> On 04/10/2019 03:38 AM, GerardCJAT via cctalk wrote:
>> I would like to emulate a TTY, using a daisywheel typewriter.
>>
> Well, there are Qume and Diablo.  Diablo was bought by Xerox, so some of
> them carry that label.
> Most of the stand-alone versions had serial (RS-232) ASCII interface.

I've given a couple of the Diablo KSRs (that's what the Hitypes with the
keyboard were known as).  I didn't care for them much--no immediacy of
sound and keypress--the two seem unrelated.

Daisywheel printers are incredibly difficult to get rid of--nobody wants
to pay shipping.  I got rid of the last one by throwing in a complete
system with it.   Still have a NEC Spinwriter mouldering away.

--Chuck



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