30 Nov
2015
30 Nov
'15
5:47 a.m.
Hi Tony
Did you say Data Dynamics? I certainly knew them. I used
to sell them LA36 print mechs.
It was run by two old guys called Tindale and Stabler. The factory was
in Hayes and I used to drive
there from the DEC office in Ealing via Bombay (sorry I mean Southall).
Their stuff was very nice and the factory was always very tidy.
Their KSR using the LA36 print mechanics and fitted with a reader/punch
was really smooth in operation.
Now that would really be a find.
Rod Smallwood
On 30/11/2015 12:22, tony duell wrote:
punches and
two keyboardless golfball typewriters. I have forgotten
exactly what types they were. I think the punch said something like
BPRE on it and the readers did not match the rest of the system being
Probably
BRPE (normally pronounced 'Burpee') which is a high speed
(something like 110 characters/second) paper tape punch from
Teletype.
IIRC the Teletype ones were in a grey all-metal cabinet with a lift-up
lid. There was also a Data Dynamics version in a cabinet with a smoked
perspex door and with a couple of pygmy light bulbs under the chad box
to illuminate the front. That looks pretty but doesn't change the perfomance...
-tony