list of groups please!?! neat! Ed# In a message dated 11/22/2015 9:05:14 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, dave.g4...@gmail.com writes:
There are a couple of Yahoo groups for Selectric Typewriters and some have the docs for the IO selectrics. On Nov 22, 2015 6:51 PM, "Mike Ross" <tmfdm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an I/O Selectric device which is badged as, and was originally, an > IBM 2970 Reservation Terminal. > > For better or worse, it was one of those bought up in the late 1970s by a > company called 'Western I/O", based out of Scottsdale Arizona. They > converted them for home use. One version used a Motorola 6800 to make a > nifty-sounding terminal with selectable baud rates etc. I appear to have > the 'other' version; a cheap and nasty printer-only conversion with some > form of parallel port. > > Anybody else got one? Docs about them? Parts? Schematics? I'd like to get > hold of one of the 'proper' terminal conversion versions... Must be some > squirreled away in garages! > > Alternatively, any doc on the original 2970? There's an incredible dearth > of information about what we're once very common devices... >
