What about the serial or parallel line printers that
used a type band/belt?
i used to see alot in the add's for pc's now thier
gone too.
i wouldn't mind finding one for the pc just to hear
the noise again;)
i remember the operating noises they made paper
clamp,line feed and the hammers hitting the paper -
the order of printing was(from the back of the printer
to the front of the paper)
hammer's,paper,ribbon then type band.
Bill
Message: 1
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 18:33:01 -0700
From: J Forbes <jforbes2_at_mindspring.com>
To: Cassic Computing <cctech_at_classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Where have all the Selectrics gone?
Reply-To: cctech_at_classiccmp.org
> From: "Mike Ross" <mross666_at_hotmail.com>
> 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?
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Received on Mon May 26 2003 - 15:16:00 BST