Where have all the Selectrics gone?

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon Jun 2 16:09:01 2003

--- Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> This reminds me,...
>
> Somewhere I have an electronic tyewriter, It's portable, battery operated
> (!), and has a Centroinics port on the side so you can use it as a
> printer.

I think the plotter mechanism for the workslate was also battery powered.

> The mechanism? A wide-carriage (8" or so) version of that little
> ballpoint pen plotter that we discussed recently, you know the
> CBM1520/CGP115/etc one).

Nice.

> One odd pen i have for it once contained
> white-out type correction fluid and and could be used to erase characters
> from the output (!).

Wow! That'd be a cool pen to have. You could put colored paper in the
mechanism and use it for "white" (if it didn't flake off).

-ethan
Received on Mon Jun 02 2003 - 16:09:01 BST

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