26 May
2003
26 May
'03
7:12 a.m.
Yep- That's them Tony. - Cardcage across the rear. Called a bustle, wasn't
it? I know there's still a manual of some sort round here but it's stored
away with other older handbooks. Can dig it out if it's likely to be of any
use. Had to part out two or three to get the rest all going concerns so
there may even be some of those displays still here. If you are interested I
will have a look.
All the ones I had were RO versions- they were used as local printers for
terminals hosted by an ICL (surprise!) mainframe which I also 'removed'.
Can't recall what it was though.
As a result of that enterprise we had orange 'washing machines' all over the
back yard for months. (They were about the right size, so that's what the
kids called them.) Actually CDC drives, from memory. The disk packs were
all of 60MB/s and they had a magnificent half horsepower single phase motor
driving them. Even now, relocating that monster and getting it all running
again would be a real challenge-back then (~1978) it was not even
considered.
Dave Brown
Christchurch, NZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: Where have all the Selectrics gone?
> And what about the Termiprinters-none of them
left now either I guess-
think
Are those the ones with the bammer bank and print belt, a bit like a mini
line printer? Not a true line printer, though -- a maximum of 4 hammers
can fire at a time since the PSU couldn't handle any more.
If so, I have a pair of them, along with the field service manual. No
complete schematics :-(. Mine started off as a 74 column KSR and a 118
column RO, but I moved the wider hammer bank into the KSR machine and
made the appropriate changes to the jumpering on the PCBs.THe only
problem was the print position indicator (a numeric display indicating
where the virtual printhead is) -- RO models didn't have it, and the one
in my KSR was only 2 digits (obviously). I added an extra red LED to
indicate the hundreds (no way could I get the original filament
displays). A kludge, but it worked...
> I saw a couple of the answerback pcb's out in the garage recently-the
ones
> with a strappable diode matrix assy to program up
the answerback code.
Had
I never had the answerback option.
> 20 or so of the basic 300 baud variants pass thru my hands about 15
years
> back but no idea where any of them are now. There
was even a 'fast'
version
> (badged HP) that could print about twice as fast
as the standard ones.
Might
Mine are ICL-badged, and at least one has the 600 baud position.
-tony