[TriLUG] Piece of History

[Brian Henning]

So you're saying that Selectric Typewriters have BALLS!

*snicker giggle snicker*

~B

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Mark Turner
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:13 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Piece of History

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_c
omputer_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.
>
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