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Re: Older Hardware Still Works

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Older Hardware Still Works
Date 2025-08-12 02:00 +0000
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2025 22:20:53 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2025-08-11, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 
>> At one point I rented a Selectric in case I wanted something fancier
>> than dot matrix for a client proposal and i didn't want to buy a daisy
>> wheel. When I left town traveling light I called up the office rental
>> place to see where they wanted it returned. 'Don't bother.'  I left it
>> on the sidewalk and it was gone the next day.  That was in '88.
> 
>     I'm electric, I'm eclectic, got an IBM Selectric.
>       -- National Lampoon, channeling Bruce Springsteen
> 
> I've uploaded a set of Selectric servicing manuals to Bitsavers.

I have a nagging, mostly repressed memory of a scheme to turn a Selectric 
into a printer that involved a cubic crap load of solenoids... 

https://hackaday.com/2012/06/13/turning-an-ibm-selectric-into-a-printer/

If he used an Arduino it must have been a recent attempt. I don't think 
Don Lancaster was involved in the original hack. If he had been it would 
be programmed in PostScript. He did come up with this gem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Typewriter

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Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-10 23:05 -0400
  Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-11 04:15 +0000
    Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-11 00:42 -0400
      Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-11 06:17 +0000
        Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-11 03:11 -0400
          Re: Older Hardware Still Works Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-11 11:21 +0200
            Re: Older Hardware Still Works The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-11 11:59 +0100
              Re: Older Hardware Still Works Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-11 17:16 +0200
            Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-11 13:12 -0400
              Re: Older Hardware Still Works Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-11 22:22 +0200
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-11 20:34 -0400
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-12 06:36 +0200
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-12 01:25 -0400
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-12 08:31 +0100
            Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-11 19:35 +0000
              Re: Older Hardware Still Works Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-08-11 22:23 +0200
          Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-11 19:30 +0000
            Re: Older Hardware Still Works Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-08-11 22:20 +0000
              Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-12 02:00 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-11 23:25 -0400
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-12 10:18 +0200
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-08-13 09:32 +1000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-13 03:55 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-13 01:39 -0400
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@personalprojects.net> - 2025-08-12 09:25 -0400
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-13 01:37 -0400
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-13 11:18 +0100
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-13 23:27 -0400
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-14 04:04 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-14 02:06 -0400
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-14 10:59 +0200
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-14 12:56 +0100
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-14 19:12 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-15 01:25 -0400
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-15 14:49 +0100
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-15 14:47 +0100
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-14 12:54 +0100
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-14 19:19 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-15 01:37 -0400
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-15 07:22 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-15 03:46 -0400
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-08-15 08:50 +0100
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-15 08:43 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-15 14:57 +0100
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-08-15 13:07 -0700
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-15 14:48 +0100
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-13 19:42 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-14 12:37 +0100
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-08-12 18:47 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-08-13 08:05 +0100
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-13 22:22 -0400
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-14 04:14 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-14 02:41 -0400
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-14 18:57 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-15 00:35 -0400
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-14 12:45 +0100
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-08-12 18:47 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-13 03:58 +0000
      Re: Older Hardware Still Works John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-08-11 09:20 -0700
  Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-11 11:47 +0200
    Re: Older Hardware Still Works The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-11 12:00 +0100

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