Can anyone identify this IBM magnetic tape cartridge?

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Sat Apr 10 23:03:44 2004

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Ed Sharpe wrote:

> and before that there was the mag card selectric....
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> From: "Geoff" <gbasesmith_at_zoomtown.com>
> To: <cctech_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 7:30 AM
> Subject: Can anyone identify this IBM magnetic tape cartridge?
>
>
> The magnetic tape you have is for the IBM Magnetic Tape Selectric
> Typewriter. This machine was the first "Word Processing" device ever
> marketed. It was introduced 40 years ago in May of 1964!
>
> Neither the term "word processor" or "text editor" existed at that time.
> After being on the market for about two years IBM sales representatives
> familiar with "data processing" began to call the concept "word processing",
> thus the term evolved.
>
> The product was priced at $10,500 (in 1964 dollars!) It included a full
> size Steelcase desk with a recessed typewriter and a tape console 1' w x
> 2.5' d x 3' h that weighed about 100 lbs.
>
> Text was entered on the typewriter keyboard, recorded on the tape and edited
> by playing text back from the tape a character, word, line, etc. at a time.
> Print speed was an awsome 15 characters per second.

True! But what was really awsome was that when your secretary
entered changes into a document, she did not (normally) enter
brand new errors that had not been there in the prior edition.
This was REALLY progress.

                                                - don
Received on Sat Apr 10 2004 - 23:03:44 BST