Hacking a typewriter into a teletype

Olympia ES101, etc. Daisy wheel typewriters with centronics port. Rochester Dynatyper KGS-80 were boxes of solenoids that sat on top of the keyboard, and pressed the keys. They would work for almost anything that had a relatively "normal" keyboard, even a Merganthaler from Hell! One had a Centronics compatible interface (34 pin card-edge connector to fit with TRS80 Model I LPT port), crimping an IDC 36 pin Blue Ribbon connector on its cable was sufficient to interface it to a 5150 parallel port. It worked well with PC-Write. The other had a double-ended board that fit Apple][ slots and/or TRS80 expansion port. It worked OK with Electric Pencil and Scripsit. Escon? in Walnut Creek made a kit for butchering Selectrics. It fit on the bottom and pulled keys down as needed. At the West Coast Computer Faire (one of the earlier ones, maybe #4 - #6), somebody demo'ed a unit that worked on almost any typewriter (they demo'ed with a MANUAL PORTABLE). It connected up all over the typewriter with fishing wire. The crowd seemed to like it, and applauded vigorously every time that it successfully completed a Carriage Return. At the Third? West Coast Computer Faire (LA?), somebody presented a "paper"proposing a $50 typewriter interface. But, it was all speculation on what the toy companies COULD DO, if they wanted to. It was NOT on a par with the paper by George Morrow and Howard Fullmer about standardization of S100. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com