5 Jun
2004
5 Jun
'04
7:58 p.m.
cctech-request(a)classiccmp.org schrieb am 06.06.2004:
Message: 15
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 11:05:16 -0400
From: akb+lists.cctech(a)imap1.mirror.to (Andrew K. Bressen)
Subject: more on printing terminals
To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org
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I've been getting interested in printing terminals.
(I am seeking professional help for this, but meanwhile...).
Is there a device which is a good modern (correcting) typewriter,
true letter-quality (daisy, thimble, golfball) printer, and also
a terminal?
Plenty of typewriters were made with serial or parallel ports,
but I don't know of anything with both correction tape and a control key...
Correcting Selectric II's came out around 1973, and the LA36 Decwriter
II in 1974, with the Selectric III and LA100 still being available at
least into the mid-eighties... was there really no perceived market
for a product that combined the strengths of both?
We had at the office (in Germany) Olympia daisy-wheel typewritere with
correction tape, that could optionalley be fitted with a RS232 interface.
We used it at one of the machines, but only for output.
Those typewriters may still be available today.
akb, still waiting for the reinvention of the
versioning file system and
the standardized stacking error facility
Why re-invent? I have RSX11!
Frank