General electric Computer Department used selectrics on the systems they produced.... always looking for anything GE related.... ed sharpe archivist for smecc ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Finnegan" <pat(a)computer-refuge.org> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 10:38 AM Subject: Re: selectric consoles

There's description, and a PDF datasheet available for download at http://www.ee.und.ac.za/DataCDs/NationalSemiconductor/Docs/wcd00015/wcd0156… Vince

Yes, Datel (not 'Datal' as I previously misread, upside-down in the dark) - marked model Thirty-21-019, Selectric-I mechanism in a box about 6" wider and deeper than a Selectric-II. -- Kevin Schoedel schoedel(a)kw.igs.net

General Electric terminet perhaps! was it a kind of beige color? if you open it up and it is a band type printer with character fingers this is probably what it is.... I think they also made a later one that was dot matrix called a terminet 30?... foggy brain... sorry.... manuals are available out there for them, we have a set at the msueum here but none scanned online... Ge terminets and tty's were the first terminals I dealt in back in the dark ages... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Mahoney" <webhead(a)theantiquecomputer.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 3:39 PM Subject: general electric terminal?

the finger band units came as a terminet 300 and a 1200 denoting the baud rate. nice as they had fully formed characters both upper and lower case. if memory serves me correctly the 300 model A came out in late 60's early 70's you will find them in many colors.... our hp 2000 f ( that became an access system ) had one with an hp paint job and terminal number on it. Honeywell also used them as console and terminal devices both for large information systems and process control products. the only units we have now are a couple Honeywell units terminet 1200 in the white and black paint job. alas the hp unit passed with the ages... probably to the same place the 2883 disk drive did for the 2000 system. If anyone has either of these units it would be nice to at least have an example of them to display next to the hp 2000 here in the museum. to see what the 2000 system looks like and what the drive looked like ( alas the terminet is not in the pic check towards the bottom of www.smecc.org) I owe a great debt to this product line, as in my first year of business they made the money that really helped launch the company. Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC Please check our web site at http://www.smecc.org to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us. address: coury house / smecc 5802 w palmaire ave glendale az 85301 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 3:51 PM Subject: Re: general electric terminal? stood data had cassette tomorrow Festival ---- http://www.vintage.org mputers ] http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

go for it! it is worth chasing after! if it is the 300 or 1200 the cassette works like a tty paper tape... very useful! Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC Please check our web site at http://www.smecc.org to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us. address: coury house / smecc 5802 w palmaire ave glendale az 85301 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Mahoney" <webhead(a)theantiquecomputer.com> To: "ed sharpe" <esharpe(a)uswest.net>et>; "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: general electric terminal? case. early paint large it what towards Electric a rocker I terrible heavy reasonably Official bucks.

On Mon, 31 May 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: Nope; it looks like http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/terminet.html that. It's the boxy-looking teleprinter against the brick wall near the center of the picture. Cheers John PS: "Everybody trim yer replies." Yeah, right.... If some folks on this list had to pay for their 'Net service by the byte, like many of our European respondents - you'd see a remarkably more polite buncha posting habits... PPS: Don't try to teach a pig to sing.... ;}

On Mon, 31 May 2004, ed sharpe wrote: Yup - it looks just like the three that came with the -30s that I had. Wish I still had them - one worked well, the other had dead logic and was a parts donor - I even ponied up the $75 that GE wanted for the Service Manual. I gave them away during a major move - but that was more thna 20 years ago. Cheers John

Hi, "Dave Brown" <tractorb(a)ihug.co.nz> said: I had the manual for that variant too. Unfortunately all I have left is the binder, the manual went about 20yrs ago when no-one was interested in keeping such things. We used to have a termiprinter that clattered away in the corner of the office - to everyones annoyance! They're not suited to an office environment :-) -- Cheers, Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com The future was never like this!

I think I donated \pounds 10.00 to a charity for my first Termiprinter. They are not light :-) The keys are magnetically encoded. Each key rail has an I-core on it, which couples to a U-core fitted throug the keyboard PCB when the key is pressed. There's a drive line that loops through each U-core, and lines for each bit and their inverse, which loop or don't loop through each U-core as appropriate (For each bit, either the normal or inverted line loops trhough each core). Pressing a key induces pulses in the appropiate output lines. That keyboard has one of the nicest feels of anything I have ever used. The ICL Termiprinters do come apart, but it's quite a long job.... I have had to do it on occasion... -tony

Not the TermiNet 30 I thought it was - this one is (gasp!) Dot Matrix!! A much newer unit, tho the "Cassette Pod" looks about the same. Damn - look how hefty that printhead assembly is... made for many millions of pages, I'm thinkin'. For $20 - it might be fun to hook up to the (serial) port of one of your machines and see if you can print to it. OF course you've got to do the RS-232 gyrations... This is a much different printing mechanism than we have been describing. I wonder if it still uses the same Hall Effect switch keyboard - as you said, it's very positive with not a lot of keytravel, and it 'clacks' as you type. Thanks for the photos, and for rescuing the old girl. Let's hope *somebody* here near you wants it... Cheers John

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 11:37, Brian Mahoney wrote: Oh that's not the one I recall... mine was black, metal, wrinkle paint maybe. Had the picket-fence print mechanism, it was RO, no keyboard.

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Fred Cisin wrote: Well that just leaves Mrs Piggy and Kermit for singing. :) Ben.

Guy> I don't expect you'd find a serial version of anything other Guy> than some of the 2741's. Then it might not even be ASCII (IBM Guy> was EBCDIC at the time). Not EBCDIC either, I believe. I remember DEC OS support for the 2741, with several different translate tables for "Correspondence code". You had to know the exact code used by your particular machine to get it to work right. paul