24 Oct
2008
24 Oct
'08
1:55 p.m.
http://eugene.craigslist.org/sys/891552741.html
Don't know if $100 is a good price nowadays or not.
--Chuck
25 Oct
25 Oct
1:59 p.m.
Wow, the dual cassette terminal. I think this is quite rare and
collectable but not for me.
If anyone wants it inspected, and/or shipped, I have experience with
these and am in Eugene Oregon twice a month for meetings.
At 60 pounds (from the listing) and my memory it is difficult to pack
but I am sure I could do it.
It has been about 15 years since I have seen one of these.
Paxton
Astoria, Oregon
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
http://eugene.craigslist.org/sys/891552741.html
Don't know if $100 is a good price nowadays or not.
--Chuck
--
Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA
2:59 p.m.
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Paxton Hoag <innfoclassics at gmail.com> wrote:
Wow, the dual cassette terminal. I think this is quite
rare and
collectable but not for me.
Well, given my login, I should be snapping this up :) I've never seen
one - in fact I didn't know the cassette model existed. It looks like
the large (original) "suitcase" model (hard to tell from the blurry
photo.) Was the cassette unit an add-on, or is this a separate model
entirely?
This looks like at least $50 to ship to IL. Ufff.
5:41 p.m.
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Paxton Hoag <innfoclassics at gmail.com> wrote:
I beelive it's an add-on. I have one and almost enough to make a second
one, the latter being a Silent 700 and a cassette unit, obtained separately
There are a couple of blanking plates you remove from the top of the
Silent 700, the cassette unit mounting pillers then fit in the holes and
are screwed down. There's a calb that hinks the cassette unit to an edge
connector on the back of the Silent 700.
I don't think there are any changes to the PCBs in the Silent 700, but I
could well be wrong about that.
-tony
Wow, the dual cassette terminal. I think this is
quite rare and
collectable but not for me.
Well, given my login, I should be snapping this up :) I've never seen
one - in fact I didn't know the cassette model existed. It looks like
the large (original) "suitcase" model (hard to tell from the blurry
photo.) Was the cassette unit an add-on, or is this a separate model
entirely?
3:36 p.m.
I'm in Eugene, so if anyone is really serious, drop the seller and me
a note and I'll go get it and let shipment, etc. get worked out
later.
Cheers,
Chuck
On 25 Oct 2008 at 10:59, Paxton Hoag wrote:
Wow, the dual cassette terminal. I think this is quite
rare and
collectable but not for me.
If anyone wants it inspected, and/or shipped, I have experience with
these and am in Eugene Oregon twice a month for meetings.
At 60 pounds (from the listing) and my memory it is difficult to pack
but I am sure I could do it.
It has been about 15 years since I have seen one of these.
Paxton
Astoria, Oregon
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
http://eugene.craigslist.org/sys/891552741.html
Don't know if $100 is a good price nowadays or not.
--Chuck
--
Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA 
4:17 p.m.
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I'm in Eugene, so if anyone is really serious,
drop the seller and me
a note and I'll go get it and let shipment, etc. get worked out
later.
Did any of these portable printing terminals support lowercase, pipe, and
backslash? I think I'm set with my collection of PT210s, but if I can
find something like I just described...
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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4:48 p.m.
On 25 Oct 2008 at 13:17, David Griffith wrote:
Did any of these portable printing terminals support
lowercase, pipe, and
backslash? I think I'm set with my collection of PT210s, but if I can
find something like I just described...
ISTR that the Silent 700 printed lowercase as smaller versions of
uppercase characters. But that's a very fuzzy memory and it could
well have been another terminal.
Cheers,
Chuck
6:54 p.m.
Did any of these portable printing terminals support
lowercase, pipe, and
backslash? I think I'm set with my collection of PT210s, but if I can
find something like I just described...
I have a number of the "briefcase'-sized portable units that have the built-in
acoustic coupler., along with a bunch of spare parts. These were very popular with
real-estate fand insurance folks back in the day, for use in gainin access to large
timeshare systems where their databases ran.
The models that I have (sorry, I can't get to them right now to get the model
number(s0), do print lower case as smaller versions of the uppercase characters. They
don't, however have the vertical bar (pipe) and backslash on the keyboard.
The dual-cassette unit in the Craig's list posting is definitely uncommon. These
were more for use as fixed location (not portable) terminals. The cassette drives acted
like punched paper tape reader/punches, and could capture data coming down the line and
write it to tape, as well as reading data from tape in response to control codes (or
through manual activation) and sending it to the host. I used one of these many years
ago, as a console on a PDP 8/e system. It was really handy. Programs could be stored on
the cassettes as if they were RIM or BIN images, and loaded from the tapes using the
standard RIM or BIN loaders.
I have an excuse to go to Eugene, but don't know if I'll get time to get there
before someone else snaps this up.
Rick Bensene
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