3M silentwriter model 1483? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Dec 1998

On Dec 2, 21:45, Sam Ismail wrote:
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  Subject: Re: 3M silentwriter model 1483?
 On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 cdrmool(a)interlog.com wrote:

 > Anyone know the story behind this?  Its a small keyboard connected to a
 > small thermal paper printer.  It has an old 70's style phone jack
 > (at least the kind we used in Ontario Canada) coming out the back of the
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   printer.  My
father who found it says he thinks its one of the early
 devices used by the deaf.   I think it was probably just a simple
 terminal. 
 Does this have a light brown and white motif?  Keys are brown?  I have a
 picture of this in a data processing book I just picked up that shows a
 woman typing on it.  She doesn't look blind.  There's also an acoustically
...
  coupled modem attached with a phone handset plug into
it. 
They were quite popular in the late 70's/early 80's as dial-up terminals in
places like libraries.  Ours had one to access the Dialog database.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York