[cctalk] Re: Mechanical Selectric keyboards on video terminals (was Re: Typing class in high school)

On 1/30/2023 14:38, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: That Bendix box in the lower-right of the picture looks more like a power supply or power regulator if it's anything other than some junk thrown together by the prop department. Harry Huskey designed the G-15 in 1952-53, but the G-15A wasn't delivered to customers until 1956 and the better-known G-16D in 1957. Bendix also made avionics, however, and a standalone electronic differential analyzer, the D-12, that was available by at least 1953: http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL2nd/B.pdf http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/bendix/d-12/D-12_Description_Mar54.pdf The table, typewriter, and plotter shown in the ed-thelen.org link above look a lot like the ones in the first frame above from Gog. Bendix also had a later DDA, the DA-1, that attached to the G-15 and used some of the lines on the G-15's drum for intermediate storage.