11 Nov
2003
11 Nov
'03
5:47 a.m.
Hello,
preparing the christmas visit to my parents
I am wondering if this could be a 2740/2741?
It is standing in my dad's garage.
It is definitely an IBM selectric with a
magnet card station. It was used to record
input data before connecting to IBM callcenter.
Then the data recorded on the magnetic card
was transfered to the host.
This was an early way to minimize online costs.
Later after my dad bought a pdp8/m it was used
as a very comfortable typewriter.
All I found about 2740/2741 never mentioned
a magnetic card station.
TIA
Gerold
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