10 Apr
2019
10 Apr
'19
9:24 a.m.
I? remember? in '79? ?a? KSR? Diablo? was? ?the? dream? KSR? printing? terminal? and?
?cost? like? ?3? grand? Oh? how? we? used? to? dream of having one of these? back then!
We? do have? one in the museum's? collection...? although? ?have not attempted to
power up? to use.
Ed#
In a message dated 4/10/2019 8:40:58 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at
classiccmp.org writes:
On 4/10/19 8:16 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 04/10/2019 03:38 AM, GerardCJAT via cctalk wrote:
I've given a couple of the Diablo KSRs (that's what the Hitypes with the
keyboard were known as).? I didn't care for them much--no immediacy of
sound and keypress--the two seem unrelated.
Daisywheel printers are incredibly difficult to get rid of--nobody wants
to pay shipping.? I got rid of the last one by throwing in a complete
system with it.? Still have a NEC Spinwriter mouldering away.
--Chuck
I would like to emulate a TTY, using a daisywheel
typewriter.
Well, there are Qume and Diablo.? Diablo was bought by Xerox, so some of
them carry that label.
Most of the stand-alone versions had serial (RS-232) ASCII interface.