27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
3:40 p.m.
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, geneb wrote:
What I'd enjoy seeing is one of those solenoid
boxes that turned IBM
Selectrics into "printers". I've seen mention of them in Kilobaud, but
I've never seen one in the wild...
I used to have two top-of-keyboard ones! (I think that Eric got both.)
IIRC:
Rochester Dynatyper Had a doeble sided interface card - one side was
Apple][ slot, the other was 40pin card edge for TRS80 expansion bus.
KGS-80 ribbon cable with 34 pin female card edge connector for TRS80
printer port; I crimped a blue-ribbon ("Centronics") connector on it.
I used it twice:
1) keyboard on TRS80-III wouldn't work, but individual keys started to
work after "exercise". So, I put the actuator box on it and dumped a lot
of text.
2) transferring a manuscript (about Honda cars) into a Merganthaler
typesetting machine that did not have any external ports.
In addition to the two that I had, there were a few more.
For Selectric, the "Escon" that attached to the underside of the
selectric.