11 Mar
2011
11 Mar
'11
2:04 p.m.
I suppose this is well known for all of you, but I didn't hear about it.
http://www.usbtypewriter.com/
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14 Mar
14 Mar
12:31 p.m.
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, SPC wrote:
I suppose this is well known for all of you, but I
didn't hear about it.
http://www.usbtypewriter.com/
Nice.
But, . . .
It uses the typewriter for input only. As long as it's connecting to all
of the mechanical key linkage, why not also have the solenoids needed to
print using the typewriter?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
3:28 p.m.
Fred Cisin wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, SPC wrote:
And anyway, I want an RS-232 version.
;-)
I suppose this is well known for all of you, but
I didn't hear about it.
http://www.usbtypewriter.com/
Nice.
But, . . .
It uses the typewriter for input only. As long as it's connecting to all
of the mechanical key linkage, why not also have the solenoids needed to
print using the typewriter? 
4:33 p.m.
It uses the
typewriter for input only. As long as it's connecting to all
of the mechanical key linkage, why not also have the solenoids needed to
print using the typewriter?
And anyway, I want an RS-232 version. 
12:40 p.m.
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, SPC wrote:
I suppose this is well known for all of you, but I
didn't hear about it.
http://www.usbtypewriter.com/
Now THAT is insanely cool.
g.
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12:48 p.m.
Well, they sell assembled devices too (no connection with the seller)
expensive but *even* very cool:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/usbtypewriter?ref=seller_info
2011/3/14 Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com>
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, SPC wrote:
I suppose this is well known for all of you, but I didn't hear about it.
http://www.usbtypewriter.com/
Now THAT is insanely cool.
g.
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Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_!
Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical
minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which
holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd
by the clean end.
4:15 p.m.
Great stuff! Does anyone remember the solenoid-filled boxes that sat
over the keyboard of a Selectric typewriter and turned it into a
printer, that were sold via magazine ads and such? This sorta reminds
me of those, going in the other direction. Neat!
-Dave
On 3/14/11 12:48 PM, SPC wrote:
Well, they sell assembled devices too (no connection
with the seller)
expensive but *even* very cool:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/usbtypewriter?ref=seller_info
2011/3/14 Gene Buckle<geneb at deltasoft.com>
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, SPC wrote:
>
> I suppose this is well known for all of you, but I didn't hear about it.
>>
>> http://www.usbtypewriter.com/
>>
>> Now THAT is insanely cool.
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
4:31 p.m.
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Dave McGuire wrote:
Great stuff! Does anyone remember the
solenoid-filled boxes that sat over
the keyboard of a Selectric typewriter and turned it into a printer, that
were sold via magazine ads and such? This sorta reminds me of those, going
in the other direction. Neat!
There was such a gadget on Ebay a couple of weeks ago, but I can't find
it now. It was missing a couple of plungers from the solenoids.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
4:34 p.m.
On 3/14/11 4:31 PM, Mike Loewen wrote:
A USB front-end to one of those would be neat.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Great stuff!
Does anyone remember the solenoid-filled boxes that sat
over the keyboard of a Selectric typewriter and turned it into a
printer, that were sold via magazine ads and such? This sorta reminds
me of those, going in the other direction. Neat!
There was such a gadget on Ebay a couple of weeks ago, but I can't find
it now. It was missing a couple of plungers from the solenoids.
5:03 p.m.
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Dave McGuire wrote:
> Great stuff! Does anyone remember the solenoid-filled boxes that sat over
> the keyboard of a Selectric typewriter and turned it into a printer, that
> were sold via magazine ads and such? This sorta reminds me of those, going
> in the other direction. Neat!
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Mike Loewen wrote:
There was such a gadget on Ebay a couple of weeks
ago, but I can't find
it now. It was missing a couple of plungers from the solenoids.
Rochester Dynatyper
KGS-80
I can't remember which one was which - one was "Centronics parallel" with
a 34 pin card edge connector on ribbon cable for TRS-80 but worked just
fine with a "blue ribbon" connector crimped on. The other had a two edged
circuit board for expansion bus of TRS-80 AND Apple][. Both could work
with any "normal" keyboard that didn't require manually moving the platen
or mechanism for Carriage return, including typewriters, computers, and
even a Merganthaler from Hell. It even worked to beat on the keys when a
Model 3 keyboard wasn't working until each key had been forcibly pressed a
few dozen times.
Escon
box that sat UNDER a Selectric
For a TRULY manual typewriter, I remember one being demo'd at West Coast
Computer Faire that had fishing line pulling on the carriage return lever!
If you were to combine with one of them, then you would have a retro USB
terminal, that is even slower and cruder than an I/O Selectric.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
5:53 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
?Great stuff! ?Does anyone remember the solenoid-filled boxes that sat over
the keyboard of a Selectric typewriter and turned it into a printer, that
were sold via magazine ads and such? ?This sorta reminds me of those, going
in the other direction. ?Neat!
I remember them, and since my mother was a professional typist (court
transcripts and such), we *had* more than one Selectric at home.
Unfortunately, we (I) didn't have the money as a kid to buy the
solenoid boards (and as it turns out never did buy even a used printer
until I was in college), but my mother was always interested in the
approach.
It didn't help that we had a PET, and at the time, there was an extra
expense to pick up an IEEE-488->Centronics board/box (there were
several available, ISTR). Later, when I _did_ have a tank of a dot
matrix printer (wide carriage with two heads, one for columns 1-80,
one for 81-132), I rigged up a CBM User Port-to-Centronics cable
(which I was looking at mere days ago) and wrote my own Centronics
printer driver and tapped it into the IEEE routine vectors on a C-64.
The cable would work on a PET, but not the software as designed (the
big difference being that the system call vectors are in ROM on a PET
and bump through RAM on a C-64, simplifying the task of hacking in
your own routines to replace ones in ROM). If I had a need, with what
I know now, I'm sure I could hack the code I wrote to allow a PET to
drive a parallel printer with a special set of routines called
explicitly to do a screen dump or emit a string, but to avail myself
of the convenient OPEN/PRINT#/CLOSE method that works with true IEEE
devices, custom ROMs would be required.
-ethan
5:27 p.m.
On 14/03/2011 16:48, SPC wrote:
Well, they sell assembled devices too (no connection
with the seller)
expensive but *even* very cool:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/usbtypewriter?ref=seller_info
The very first picture on that page is almost the same as the Olympia
typewriter I used to have and love. I've often wished I'd not got rid
of it, and you just reminded me ;-)
(mine had more keys than that, IIRC)
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Network Manager
University of York
11:24 p.m.
I suppose this is well known for all of you, but I
didn't hear about it.
http://www.usbtypewriter.com
I emailed Jack Z. (the inventor) and invited him to VCF East; he lives
nearby. Have not heard back yet. Will post here if/when there is an
announcement.
11:42 p.m.
I suppose this is well known for all of you, but
I didn't hear about it.
http://www.usbtypewriter.com
I emailed Jack Z. (the inventor) and invited him to VCF East; he lives
nearby. Have not heard back yet. Will post here if/when there is an
announcement. 
15 Mar
15 Mar
5:48 a.m.
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, SPC wrote:
Seems that this guy is doing some copyright infringement in his video; I
only get the message (translated into English) "This video contains
contents from UMG. It is not available in your country"...
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