[TriLUG] Items to give away

[Pete Soper]

One place I went to school had a Univac "remote terminal" that had a 
printing terminal, a keyboard, and the world's slowest punched card 
reader connected to the 1108 across campus at some weirdball speed like 
150 baud.
The font was on the outer flat edge of a ring that spun in front of the 
paper while the wheel moved left to right.  A hammer struck the paper 
from behind at just the right moment. The registration was perfect. I 
can't recall if it had a ribbon or whether the wheel ran across some 
kind of ink applicator from a reservoir. The wheel was maybe 3" in diameter.

-Pete

On 02/11/2015 03:07 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 02/11/2015 02:40 PM, David Burton wrote:
>> On the off chance that wasn't a joke...
>> http://www.ebay.com/sch/Printers-/1245/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=NEC+Spinwriter 
>>
>
> Those are all actually "pin-writers", as in "no-spin". I meant the 
> ball-type "daisy wheels". They do one thing no other printer will do, 
> print through 7 carbons with true perfect letter quality.
>
> I had one connected to an Apple][ back when. I could print at least a 
> case of paper with one ribbon. I have a serial port nothing uses 
> anymore. So, just to possess one of those clattering beasts would be 
> my notion of fun. The one I had came with a keyboard! :) Ric
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHgpmwIkIgg
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