21 Mar
2006
21 Mar
'06
2:04 p.m.
Richard wrote:
I forget the actual number of moving parts in a selectric but
the number is impressive for such a small device that was
routinely beaten on by secretaries, etc. Apparently they all
came out of a single plant (in KY?)
He was a friend of the family -- quite pleased with himself
for all the "free labor" he had given me. :-( Kinda hard
to flame when the guy thinks he did you a favor (and you
had't explicitly told him NOT to tinker with that stuff)
Live and learn...
In article <442034EB.8000400 at DakotaCom.Net>,
Don Y <dgy at dakotacom.net> writes:
Sorry: "IBM Selectric I/O"
IIRC, the documentation refered to them as "MT/ST I/O"
I have an IBM I/O in storage (along with service
manual, spare parts,
etc.). <grin>
What's an "IBM I/O"? Allegedly,
134.5 baud was the maximum rate the *mechanism* could
run at (?)
Yes, this sounds right based on fuzzy memory. I do remember that when
it was printing full tilt it looked like it couldn't go any faster
:-). EPSCO used to
make an "Edityper" (a "word processor" built around
a modified selectric -- but it was the *smaller* selectric and
I don't think IBM did the modifications -- and a PPT for
"storage"). I had one until the typewriter service man
I brought it to for a tune up decided tht all that "extra stuff"
in there was getting in the way -- and he systematically removed
*all* of it!! <sob>
Err.. that's not a repair/tune up -- that's a mangling. I hope you
forced him to put it all back the way it was when you brought it in?