Where have all the Selectrics gone?

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_panix.com>
Date: Mon Jun 2 16:40:00 2003

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Tony Duell wrote:

>
> 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. 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). 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 (!).


  I had one like this - by a company called Silver-Reed. It was fine if
you liked everything to look like it was plotted - as opposed to
typewritten. And, the little pens tended to 'weep' and leave random
blobs of ink and streaky smears.

  But it was Cool to watch it work, especially when hooked up to my old
Kaypro 2.


  Cheers

John
Received on Mon Jun 02 2003 - 16:40:00 BST