I would like to emulate a TTY, using a daisywheel typewriter.
Well, there are Qume and Diablo. Diablo was bought by Xerox, so some of
them carry that label.
Most of the stand-alone versions had serial (RS-232) ASCII interface.
I've given a couple of the Diablo KSRs (that's what the Hitypes with the
keyboard were known as). I didn't care for them much--no immediacy of
sound and keypress--the two seem unrelated.
Daisywheel printers are incredibly difficult to get rid of--nobody wants
to pay shipping. I got rid of the last one by throwing in a complete
system with it. Still have a NEC Spinwriter mouldering away.
On Wed, 10 Apr 2019, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote:
I remember in '79 a KSR Diablo was the dream KSR printing terminal
and cost like 3 grand? Oh how we used to dream of having one of
these back then!
We do have one in the museum's collection... although have not attempted
to power up to use.
My first computer printer was a DTC-300. Diablo HyType 1 KSR.
Non-detachable stand.
Given to me by a friend who I gave a car to.
I created the manuscript for my Honda book on it.
TRS80 model 1 with "Electric Pencil"
I printed out drafts as 80 columns on 15" paper. Centered and double
spaced for the editor, flush left for the illustator, who loved having
a big chunk of space alongside to doodle in. Used to be able to get wide
paper with both edge tear-offs, AND a tear-off to reduce to 8.5x11.
One time, I got FOUR of them at John Craig's Computer Swap America.
Bringing them home in a Honda Civic was "interesting". Always have a
couple of skeins of rope in the trunk.
Getting rid of them when I closed my office in 2001 was "interesting".
But, a really great guy rescued me, and took truckloads of computer stuff
that nobody else would. Thank you, Sellam!
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
