I don't know about the timeline of Silent 700s, but I seem to have a few of the
bulkier ones in my garage (near San Jose, CA) complete with cassette tape
drives if anyone wants to "take them off my hands".
I even have a manual somewhere. I've also got some of the smaller ones (with
built in acoustic coupler) but I'll probably keep that one (unless offered some
$$$). If interested, contact me off list.
They were introduced in the 70's (75/76?) as I remember. If you had your Bell
103 modem (I have one of those, another story), they were pretty neat things
for "offline" editing of text files. Not exactly a vi editor, but better than
paper tape (that's not saying much).
Pretty reliable as a "hard copy" (thermal printing) terminal. Now days, you
can use thermal FAX paper in them and it works OK. Great to hook up to your
DP-8 or something of similar vintage.
Just a few facts.....
--
Tom Watson
tsw at
johana.com
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