2 Jun
2003
2 Jun
'03
3:29 a.m.
I dunno where they all went... In my case, I had a competing Smith-Corona
daisy-wheen typewriter with a female DB9 attachment on the back that hooked
into my first Realistic (tv monitor) computer, and made a right fair LQ
printer. I gave it to my daughter 9-10 years ago, and it seems to have
disappeared since then...
Cheers
Ed/San Antonio, TX, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Ross" <mross666(a)hotmail.com>
To: <cctech(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 05:29 PM
Subject: Where have all the Selectrics gone?
IBM made a bunch of printer terminals based around the
Selectric
typewriter
- 1052, 2740, 2970 etc. Look in any old copy of BYTE,
and you'll also find
several vendors were selling 3rd party terminals based around IBM
Selectrics, often converted for ASCII/RS-232c operation, as teletype
alternatives.
Where have they all gone? (I appreciate, from what I've heard, that many
folks who used them in anger would reply 'I don't know, I don't care, good
riddance!') Early DECwriters are not uncommon. Teletypes are (almost) ten
a
penny, ASR33s show up frequently enough on ebay, I
have several.
But the only Selectric based unit I've *seen* in over ten years of
collecting is a 2970 Reservation Termainal (see
http://www.corestore.org/2970-1.jpg ) which I was offered a year or so
ago.
It needs a fair bit of TLC, and it's a print-only
device; it can receive
data from a host and print it, but not send anything back from the
keyboard.
I'd love to get a bidirectional equivalent to use as an 'authentic'
terminal
for a 360 emulator I work with... any clues? Can
anyone recommend a
Selectric repair shop? No way I want to try to fettle something THIS
mechanically-intimidating myself!
Mike
http://www.corestore.org