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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: IBM CORRECTING SELECTRIC TYPEWRITER - can it be made a printer?
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Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 13:47:39 EDT
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> Does anyone know whether the IBM CORRECTING SELECTRIC TYPEWRITER can be
> converted to be used as a computer printer?  (I know that the old stand-by
> SELECTRIC can be converted but am not sure about this beastie.)  Who does 
> this kind of conversion?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ---
> 			Daniel M. O'Brien (ihnp4!ihlpa!dob)
> 			AT&T Bell Laboratories
> 			IH 4A-258, x 4782
> 			Naperville-Wheaton Road
> 			Naperville, IL 60566

Gag.  A couple years ago I saw a company near San Jose advertising a product
that "turns your Selectric typewriter into a computer printer".  It was a
box containing a bunch of electrically actuated rods that mounted on top of
the keyboard.  The box had a cable that plugged into an RS-232 port.  And
it only cost $500!  (I'm serious.  So were they.  More's the pity.)

Seriously, unless someone will do a conversion for $200, it makes a lot more
sense to buy a daisy wheel printer; even the lowest speed daisy wheel printers
will be as fast or faster.