More on printing terminals

From: Frank Arnold <fm.arnold_at_gmx.net>
Date: Sat Jun 5 23:58:12 2004

cctech-request_at_classiccmp.org schrieb am 06.06.2004:
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>Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 11:05:16 -0400
>From: akb+lists.cctech_at_imap1.mirror.to (Andrew K. Bressen)
>Subject: more on printing terminals
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>I've been getting interested in printing terminals.
>(I am seeking professional help for this, but meanwhile...).
>
>Is there a device which is a good modern (correcting) typewriter,
>true letter-quality (daisy, thimble, golfball) printer, and also
>a terminal?
>
>Plenty of typewriters were made with serial or parallel ports,
>but I don't know of anything with both correction tape and a control key...
>
>Correcting Selectric II's came out around 1973, and the LA36 Decwriter
>II in 1974, with the Selectric III and LA100 still being available at
>least into the mid-eighties... was there really no perceived market
>for a product that combined the strengths of both?
>

We had at the office (in Germany) Olympia daisy-wheel typewritere with
correction tape, that could optionalley be fitted with a RS232 interface.
We used it at one of the machines, but only for output.
Those typewriters may still be available today.

>akb, still waiting for the reinvention of the versioning file system and
>the standardized stacking error facility
>

Why re-invent? I have RSX11!


Frank
Received on Sat Jun 05 2004 - 23:58:12 BST