[TriLUG] Piece of History

[Mark Turner]

Ah, yes. Time for another TriLUG "Geezer Thread." :-)

Brian, your mention of the Selectric "terminal" brought back memories. My
dad frequently brought home Selectrics from his job at IBM, so they were
pretty familiar. One that had a fat cable on the back and could be used as a
computer printer, albeit it printed at 15 cps. Wikipedia tells me it was one
of the Selectric printer varieties:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter#The_Selectric_as_computer_terminal

Compared to the pathetic quality of a dot matrix, a Selectric-made printout
was often worth the wait!

I still have a handful of Selectric typeballs I pocketed after Oculan closed
its doors.  :-)

Cheers,
Mark Turner
www.markturner.net

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:

>
> Darn, I guess it's my turn.  How about an IBM Selectric-based "terminal"
> with a 110 or 150 Baud modem built in, and attached to the Telephone
> line, with a pair of cups ( acoustic coupler ) that you put the old
> black telephone handset into.
>