I dunno where they all went... In my case, I had a competing Smith-Corona
daisy-wheen typewriter with a female DB9 attachment on the back that hooked
into my first Realistic (tv monitor) computer, and made a right fair LQ
printer. I gave it to my daughter 9-10 years ago, and it seems to have
disappeared since then...
Cheers
Ed/San Antonio, TX, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Ross" <mross666_at_hotmail.com>
To: <cctech_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 05:29 PM
Subject: Where have all the Selectrics gone?
> IBM made a bunch of printer terminals based around the Selectric
typewriter
> - 1052, 2740, 2970 etc. Look in any old copy of BYTE, and you'll also find
> several vendors were selling 3rd party terminals based around IBM
> Selectrics, often converted for ASCII/RS-232c operation, as teletype
> alternatives.
>
> Where have they all gone? (I appreciate, from what I've heard, that many
> folks who used them in anger would reply 'I don't know, I don't care, good
> riddance!') Early DECwriters are not uncommon. Teletypes are (almost) ten
a
> penny, ASR33s show up frequently enough on ebay, I have several.
>
> But the only Selectric based unit I've *seen* in over ten years of
> collecting is a 2970 Reservation Termainal (see
> http://www.corestore.org/2970-1.jpg ) which I was offered a year or so
ago.
> It needs a fair bit of TLC, and it's a print-only device; it can receive
> data from a host and print it, but not send anything back from the
keyboard.
>
> I'd love to get a bidirectional equivalent to use as an 'authentic'
terminal
> for a 360 emulator I work with... any clues? Can anyone recommend a
> Selectric repair shop? No way I want to try to fettle something THIS
> mechanically-intimidating myself!
>
> Mike
> http://www.corestore.org
Received on Mon Jun 02 2003 - 10:29:00 BST
