[GreenKeys] DURA Selectric ASR terminals free

Tue Dec 17 03:12:43 EST 2019

Perhaps Kilobaud November June/July 1978?

Some interesting articles for converting regular IBM Selectric typewriters
and I/O Selectrics to computer-controlled devices.
Last updated 4:31 PM 25/04/2017

A useful and interesting thread on VCF (the Vintage Computer Forum):	

http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?23266-Interfacing-IBM-Selectric-to
-IO-Port

Taming the I/O Selectric (June 1978 Issue #18 part 1: hardware interface and
continued in July 1978 Issue #19 Part 2: software):
	https://archive.org/details/kilobaudmagazine-1978-06
	https://archive.org/details/kilobaudmagazine-1978-07

Kilobaud November 1979	ASCII-to-Selectric Software Driver:

https://archive.org/download/kilobaudmagazine-1979-11/Kilobaud_Microcomputin
g_1979_November.pdf

Kilobaud August 1981	Apple to Selectric for 83 Cents:

https://archive.org/download/kilobaudmagazine-1981-08/Kilobaud_Microcomputin
g_1981_August.pdf

Interface Age June 1980	The Escon Selectric Interface (review):
	https://archive.org/details/InterfaceAge198006

Escon Selectric Interface Manuals:

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/escon/ESCON_Typewriter_Kit_
Model_E-A_Volume_1_Jun78.pdf

http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ESCON_Typewriter_Kit_Model_
E-A_Volume_2_Jun78.pdf

Dr Dobbs Journal March 1977   THE SELECTRIC TYPEWRITER AS AN INPUT/OUTPUT
DEVICE:

http://6502.org/documents/publications/dr_dobbs_journal/dr_dobbs_journal_vol
_02.pdf

>From the 'TV Typewriter Cookbook' by Don Lancaster. 
'ASCII-Selectric Code Conversion' using PROM with code map and solenoid
driver schematics. There is a lot of Selectric inofrmation scattered all
throughout this book:
	https://archive.org/download/tvtcb_doc/tvtcb.pdf

Radio Electronics three-part very extensive guide to converting a standard
Selectric to a computer-controlled printing Selectric:
	https://archive.org/details/radio_electronics_1983-12
	https://archive.org/details/radio_electronics_1984-01
	https://archive.org/details/radio_electronics_1984-02

Art-style printing Selectric:

https://hackaday.com/2012/06/13/turning-an-ibm-selectric-into-a-printer/

Lawrence Wilkinson's excellent site for an Arduino based serial interface
for an IBM I/O Selectric typewriter/printer:
	https://github.com/ibm2030/IOSelectric

A simple IBM I/O Selectric typewriter controller by Julio Ortega, March
1982:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226594701_A_simple_IBM_IO_Selectric
_typewriter_controller

A circuit done by some old-school CE's of IBM Australia:

http://www.vcfed.org/forum/entry.php?582-IBM-I-O-Selectric-terminal-interfac
e-for-a-microcomputer-circa-1980

A book showing how to do it. Actually, only useful for interfacting a real
I/O Selectric and a Dura 1041 terminal, mostly it covers the software for an
old 8-bit micro:
	The Selectric Interface, a Hands-On Approach 1982
	'THE SELECTRIC INTERFACE A Hands-on Approach' by George Young 1982.
125 pages. Published by Wayne Green Incorporated  ISBN 0-88006-051-4

IBM WheelWriter conversion to printing terminal:

http://hackaday.com/2017/01/14/vintage-ibm-daisywheel-prints-again-after-rev
erse-engineering/

Not a Selectric, but relevant due to solenoid control of a vintage type-bar
typewriter:
	http://upnotnorth.net/projects/typewriter/

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Clay Archer
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Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] DURA Selectric ASR terminals free

I knew George Young, he lived near Fresno when I worked at the Byte Shop of
Fresno in 1977.   I still have a couple of his books (Kilobaud Klassroom)
and a few gadgets that he gave me.   I don't have a copy of that book listed
on eBay though.  It would be nice to have a copy, but not at that price....

 I did interface a Selectric to an Imsai computer back then.   I wrote the
program to translate to the tilt & rotate code, and used a lot of software
timing loops just like Robert Nickels describes in a later post.  I seem to
recall that there was an article in Popular Electronics on interfacing the
Selectric, about that time too.   I think that was the design I used for the
hardware, drivers & such.
Clay
KG7LWX

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[mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Paul Birkel
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Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] DURA Selectric ASR terminals free

And that book is still available on eBay ... for a song!
https://www.ebay.com/c/1435844 

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[mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dave Wade
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2019 2:43 AM
To: 'Jeff Albrecht'; greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] DURA Selectric ASR terminals free

Just in case anyone else is interesting I was told on cctalk that

Interfacing the Dura 1041 is very well covered in the book 'THE SELECTRIC
INTERFACE A Hands-on Approach' by George Young.
There are whole chapters on the Dura 1041 printer, encoding the Dura
eyboard, interfacting the punch, tape reader and more.

Steve.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net <greenkeys- 
> bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Jeff Albrecht
> Sent: 14 December 2019 02:20
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> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] DURA Selectric ASR terminals free
> 
> On 12/10/2019 10:40 AM, John Lawson wrote:
> > Greetings List!
> >
> > I have a couple of "DURA" Selectric ASR terminals.  I also have some 
> > limited documentation on them. Neither of them work as far as I know.
> > I tried to run the one in the pic when I first got it, but it's 
> > jammed
> > - so on the shelf it went.
> >
> 
> Did these find a home? Or are they still available?
> 
>   - Jeff
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