[rescue] Re: [SunRescue] OT: AS/400 stuff

[Ken Hansen]

Well, the real geeks took a bunch of electronics and converted them
themselves!

Back then, if you had money, you bought a daisywheel printer (early 80's,
maybe 1979) - it took a small disk with a bunch of fingers, and the
daisywheel would spin and a hammer would strike the requested finger as it
got to the right position. Qume and Diablo were the two big vendors, IIRC.

Of course, that was back when printers were measured in CPS, then came LPM
when fast printers like the MX-80 came out, and then PPM after Apple
introduced us to Laser Printers.

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael S. Schiller" <schiller at agrijag.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: [SunRescue] OT: AS/400 stuff


> I actually had one of these. It was made by Anderson Jacobson, their model
> number 841 printing terminal. It was built on the Selectric
(communications
> model) typewriter, but AJ's added electronics made it work as an ascii
> terminal, rather than an EBCDIC one! Was really cool, a bit noisy in
operation,
> although it was quieter than the ASR-33 that it replaced :) not to mention
> faster!
>
> -Mike
>
> Ken Hansen wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Another popular conversion was to turn Selectric typewriters in to
> > printers...
> >
> > Ah, the good old days...
> >
> > Ken
> >
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