27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
1:20 p.m.
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Dave McGuire wrote:
First, there are LOTS AND LOTS of them out there. There are many people
who are interested in them...but they already have some. Keep in mind that,
until the past 20-30 years, the number of typewriters in the world absolutely
DWARFED the number of computers in the world.
Second, they're heavy and expensive to ship.
Third, what you're talking about is half a century newer than anything most
of these people are interested in.
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...
g.
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