That's quite near Walnut Creek. (where I live)
In fact (in the good old days) Tektronix had their
offices on that same street. In the era when
they were trying to sell smalltalk machines.
Marketed as AI workstations. That would be mid to
late 1980's. Boy, I'd love to have one of those.
Jim
--- Marvin Johnston <marvin at rain.org> wrote:
The information indicates their address as:
ESCON Products, Inc.
171 Mayhew Way
Suite 204
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
I don't know that area, or if it is close to Walnut
Creek.
The installation instructions detail how to install
the magnets and wiring onto
a Selectric. Volume II contains the illustrations of
the Selectric that go with
the installation instructions.
When I go back over (hopefully tomorrow), I'll check
and see if any Selectrics
survived the dumpster.
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
1) IS IT the one from Walnut Creek, CA?
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Marvin Johnston wrote:
> Yes, the box is basically a 6502 microprocessor
and support chips, and has
no
mechanical connections to the Selectric.
>"the magnets used in the ESCON conversion kits
have 55-ohm coils, except
> for the shift magnet which has a 130-ohm
coil."
> There were no magnets in this package. I suspect
if there was a
> Selectric already prepared with the magnets,
it
got dumpstered before I
got a
chance to check this stuff out.
that does not seem to be consistent with an
electronic only, no mechanical
connection, system
You appear to be missing the other half of it,
that connects to the
selectric
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