13 Apr
2024
13 Apr
'24
2:39 p.m.
> Did any one ever use a keyboard to magtape as
input device?
On Sat, 13 Apr 2024, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
My wife did, sort of: for a while she worked with IBM
MT/ST word processors. Those were very early word processing systems that used a custom
magnetic tape cartridge for storage and a Selectric typewriter for I/O.
Rather off-topic, and silly (about MT/ST), . . .
I gave away one decades ago. A friend wanted it as an advertising prop
because he was writing a word processing program called "FULL/ST".