6 Feb
2002
6 Feb
'02
3:56 a.m.
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Merle K. Peirce wrote:
I suppose I should have mentioned my own interest in
word processors,
which has become a work interst also.
And for something completely different, does anyone have any information
on ICL equipment sold over here? We have a damged terminal, marked, I
think, System 25, with a keyboard bearing the legend "made by ICL in usa".
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
If its old enough, ICL was once allied with Singer (who made computer
equipment at the Singer/Friden plant in Good Old San Leandro)
I once, many many moons ago, because I could not afford an ASR33, converted a
Singer model 70 workstation (giant 132 column typebar printer) to a async
serial terminal (by removing the mutidrop line card and replacing it with a
wirewrapped card with a UART and some FIFOs) The noise that printer made still
echos in my head..
Peter Wallace