What's your specialty?

From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Wed Feb 6 11:56:27 2002

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Merle K. Peirce wrote:

> I suppose I should have mentioned my own interest in word processors,
> which has become a work interst also.
>
> And for something completely different, does anyone have any information
> on ICL equipment sold over here? We have a damged terminal, marked, I
> think, System 25, with a keyboard bearing the legend "made by ICL in usa".
>
> M. K. Peirce
>
> Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
> Shady Lea, Rhode Island
>
> "Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
>
> - Ovid
>
>
If its old enough, ICL was once allied with Singer (who made computer
equipment at the Singer/Friden plant in Good Old San Leandro)

I once, many many moons ago, because I could not afford an ASR33, converted a
Singer model 70 workstation (giant 132 column typebar printer) to a async
serial terminal (by removing the mutidrop line card and replacing it with a
wirewrapped card with a UART and some FIFOs) The noise that printer made still
echos in my head..

Peter Wallace
Received on Wed Feb 06 2002 - 11:56:27 GMT