[GreenKeys] Selectric Printer

[Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys]

yes  remember having to have a look up table  to    convert....
 
having a IBM Selectric hooked to the  computer was  really great  as  you 
could print nice documents!
 
Diablo daisy wheel  printers in the early  days were really   expensive!  
We have a KSR Diablo  printing terminal here  and it  was thousands new!  
 
I also remember and NEC  thimblewriter  thing too   form  back then.  and a 
QUME  as I recall. 
 
Of  course back when those Selectric  KSR terminals were new they  were 
darn expensive too.. horribly so... but it was the fact they were coming  
offline as surplus that the hobbyist  could  afford them.
 
 
Ed Sharpe Archivist  for SMECC  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 11/23/2014 11:59:54 A.M. US Mountain Standard Tim,  
jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:

On Sun,  23 Nov 2014, David Burns wrote:

> The selectric mechanism in an  ASCII  terminal was the IBM 2741 which ran 
at
> 134.5 baud...."Not  Your Average" baud rate.  The odd baud rate means 
that to

Not  quite.  It has its own code,  non-ASCII.

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