1 Sep
2023
1 Sep
'23
3:18 p.m.
On 9/1/23 14:38, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
With all this talk about Friden and Singer, perhaps
someone can help me
jog my memory. We were working on a contract that, as remote terminals,
included a card reader (singer) and a printing terminal (singer also).
The terminal consisted of a leadscrew-fed printing head with a vertical
typewheel rotating perpendicular to the (tractor-feed) paper. Said
typewheel was in contact with an ink-soaked felt wheel. Carriage return
was accomplished via a large spring. Utter steampunk simplicity.
I remember a Kleinschmidt (I think) printer that had a wheel
that spun on a horizontal shaft that was in front of the
paper. The wheel had a spline so that it turned
synchronously with the shaft, but could be slid left and
right, maybe by a toothed belt. Then. I guess there was a
hammer behind the paper that pressed it against the ribbon
and type wheel when the right character passed by. It
printed at 30 chars/second. I looked for this model online
but didn't find anything.
Jon