IBM Selectric used as printer on Apple ][+

From: Charles A. Davis <cad_at_gamewood.net>
Date: Mon May 18 02:32:19 1998

Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > I think there was an article in Popular Electronics (or something similar)
> > for this Selectric modification.
>
> There was certainly an article in 'Electronics - the Maplin Magazine' in
> the UK to interface a Selectric printer to a centronics port.
>
> > William Donzelli
>
> -tony

Hi Folks:
I set up a software intercept on the output of a CoCo, and converted
from ASCII to EBCIDI (whatever), to use a Selectric as an output
printer.
The conversion table was interesting.

Chuck
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