Where have all the Selectrics gone? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 May 2003

What about the serial or parallel line printers that
used a type band/belt?

i used to see alot in the add's for pc's now thier
gone too.

i wouldn't mind finding one for the pc just to hear
the noise again;)

i remember the operating noises they made paper
clamp,line feed and the hammers hitting the paper -
the order of printing was(from the back of the printer
to the front of the paper)
hammer's,paper,ribbon then type band. 

Bill

Message: 1
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 18:33:01 -0700
From: J Forbes &lt;jforbes2(a)mindspring.com&gt;
To: Cassic Computing &lt;cctech(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Subject: Re: Where have all the Selectrics gone?
Reply-To: cctech(a)classiccmp.org

...
  From: "Mike Ross"
&lt;mross666(a)hotmail.com&gt; 
...
  IBM made a bunch of printer terminals based around
the Selectric 
typewriter 
...
  - 1052, 2740, 2970 etc. Look in any old copy of
BYTE, and you'll also 
find 
...
  several vendors were selling 3rd party terminals
based around IBM 
...
  Selectrics, often converted for ASCII/RS-232c
operation, as teletype 
...
  alternatives.

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