On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Steve Rickaby wrote:
At 20:32 -0500 16/10/12, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:
...because it was invented by IBM for the MTST (Magnetic Tape Selectric
Typewriter)...
You mean there was an *automatic* Selectric? Why didn't I know about
this?? Why didn't I have one??? ;-)
"Automatic" in one sense that the machine had been designed to be an
output device -- a printer -- with the correct hardware added inside.
In the mid-70s I purchased an interface kit from a third party that
installed inside the Seletric. Selonoids and linkages; wires
snaking through the guts. (7 selonoids could select any character on
the type ball.)
Took many months to get it adjusted just right, but it was glorious to
have the results of work done with the primitive word processor
(hosted in a 60 pound S-100 system with a whopping 32K of memory) spit
out text at nearly twice the rate I could type.
Interesting times. :)
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