On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:38:53PM +0100, Mark Firestone wrote:
> I remember seeing a device that turned a selectric II into a printer... you
> glued these little hooks on the top, and then attatched a doo-hickey with
> about 92 little plungers, that basically typed the output. Wholey Kludgy
> device, batman!
I wanted one of those back in 1979... my mother was a professional typist
(court transcripts, largely, at the time), so we had several Selectric IIs
before we bought a computer (A 32K Commodore PET 2001-32N). I was just in
Jr. High and couldn't afford it myself, and could not persuade my mother
to spring for it.
I ended up getting my first printer, like my first floppy drive, three years
later, through my first employer - Bruce and James Publishing, the creators
of "WordVision" (distributed by Simon and Schuster). I had to return the
printer when the company folded, but I got to keep the floppy drive (and
the C-64 it attached to!)
-ethan
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