27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
6:30 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 09/27/2012 04:20 PM, geneb wrote:
I remember them from BYTE, too. When I was a kid, we had the
Selectrics (my mother was a professional typist), but the relay boards
were just a bit more expensive than she wanted to spend to put a
printer on my PET (maybe if she'd seen one working in a store it might
have been different, but the pictures didn't help enough to sell the
concept).
-ethan
What I'd enjoy seeing is one of those
solenoid boxes that turned IBM
Selectrics into "printers". I've seen mention of them in Kilobaud, but
I've never seen one in the wild...
Same here. I remember them from ads in BYTE. I'd go
Selectric-hunting in a very serious way if I had one of those.