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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: williamjoseph on Thu, 04 November 2010, 01:38:31

Title: slow motion IBM Selectric Typewrtier vid
Post by: williamjoseph on Thu, 04 November 2010, 01:38:31

check'it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1nqvScy-RA)

Title: slow motion IBM Selectric Typewrtier vid
Post by: Lanx on Tue, 23 November 2010, 14:40:26

haven't check this guy's subscriptions in almost 4months since there hasn't been much new videos, just decided to check now and 2 vids on the selectric.

Title: IBM Selectric
Post by: bettablue on Sat, 19 February 2011, 13:52:02

I had one of these typewriters.  It was actually put together from parts of two broken ones.  My father found them along the side of the road and brought them home.  In the matter of a single day, he had one working model.  We used it for years before we finally had a computer in the home that could do word processing.  I even wrote my highschool reports and college term papers on the thing.  

I AM old!

Title: slow motion IBM Selectric Typewrtier vid
Post by: quadibloc on Sat, 19 February 2011, 14:48:04

And then there was this video...

Title: slow motion IBM Selectric Typewrtier vid
Post by: keyb_gr on Sat, 19 February 2011, 15:28:32

Though the last one may be a fake (http://unix.org.in/2010/11/ibm-typewriter-running-linux-kernel/). Memory function makes more sense indeed. I don't think such an old Wheelwriter would sport anything that could even run a Linux kernel.

Title: slow motion IBM Selectric Typewrtier vid
Post by: kill will on Sat, 19 February 2011, 15:41:21

how can i make a selectric iii usb ?

Title: slow motion IBM Selectric Typewrtier vid
Post by: Daniel Beaver on Sat, 19 February 2011, 17:33:40

Quote from: kill will;297878

how can i make a selectric iii usb ?

In a non-trivial manner.

Title: slow motion IBM Selectric Typewrtier vid
Post by: kill will on Sat, 19 February 2011, 20:04:36

ya i wanna make a selectric iii usb input device for a computer or ipad .. it shouldnt be hard since it supposedly has a digital to analog converter .. i need digital to digital .. i dropped out of electrical engineering when i was 18 so i have no clue about making a pcb to do it.