more on printing terminals

From: pavl <pzachary_at_sasquatch.com>
Date: Sun Jun 6 17:38:41 2004

I am not aware of a printing terminal with correction, but if you like
printing terminals don't miss the NEC spinwriter (mine is a 7725), you COULD
always use a computer to do the correcting :)
 or a video terminal and dump to a printer, oh wait that's a computer too...

Pavl_

On Sunday 06 June 2004 08:05 am, you wrote:
> 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?
>
> --akb
Received on Sun Jun 06 2004 - 17:38:41 BST