28 Dec
2018
28 Dec
'18
4:50 p.m.
Reminds me of a few years ago when I bought some odds and ends out of a NASA
engineer's estate on the space coast. In the mix was a Selectric I/O service manual
(with NASA Prop stamps). What struck me as unusual was that it was for the keyboard-less
version. Yes, even though it was output-only, IBM called it an I/O (at least on the manual
cover). I never have seen an IBM-sanctioned housing for such things, though it looks like
the chassis itself would fit one of these blue boxes. Still a guess, though. -C
On Dec 28, 2018, at 6:37 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
Being the 50th anniversary of the flight of Apollo 8,
I was watching a newly-uploaded informational film of the mission on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/83cGclY9OZk?t=1092
At 18:02 and 18:13 there are what appeasr to be small blue/green tabletop printers on
trolleys positioned next to the consoles.
They don't have an I/O Selectric form factor but are more like a teletype, or
something else entirely, in a sound-deadening box.
There's no platen knob visible and it doesn't look to be fanfold paper (I think)
so I'm just curious as to any idea what they are?
Steve.