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At 03:03 PM 17-05-98 -0400, William Donzelli wrote: Ah, the good old 2741. We had one here at La Trobe which had an 8080 based interface so that it could talk (current loop?) to our DECsystem-10 at 134.7 baud. I understand the 134.7 baud rate is the fastest speed that you can drive the Selectric mechanism before it flies apart :-) Did my honors thesis on this back in 1977 using a typesetting program known as Cicero running on the -10 written at ARL (Aeronautical Research Labs, in Melbourne Australia). Used it again for version 1 of my M.Sc - it could do golf ball changes to allow the pages of mathematical formulae to be printed. From memory, a typical page took 10 minutes to print due to the time wasted in golf ball changes. I keep trying to remember this when I complain that the Xerox printer I now use prints about 10 double sided pages a minute... Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"