Redactron WP

Having had some actual hands-on experience with these beasts (I used to be a service droid for a Redactron Dealer), I say deep-six the mutha'. They're pigs to work on, and utterly useless without the 'printer' (actually, it's an IBM Selectric I typewriter mechanism, with a belly plate *packed* with solenoids). Electrically, not very interesting; most of the space in the cabinet is taken up by the powersupply (ya gotta source enuf current to actuate all them solenoids). The 'brain' (if ya wanna call it that) of the thing is just a 12" square board, packed with custom ceramic SSI or MSI chips. There was another board with all of the SCR's (I think, geez, that was like, twenty years ago). ANyways, one of my fondest memories was the day I had to service on one of these puppies at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Those GI's schlocked so much wax on the floor in that office, the damned umbilical from the cabinet to the selectric was *stuck* to the floor! I gave it a good yank, and the wax flaked off the umbilical like so much dandruff. Yeek. The later Burroughs Redactor II's and III's were 8085 based, and are of more interest . . . On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 02:42:40 -0400 M H Stein <mhstein(a)usa.net> writes: ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.