On Sat, 2024-04-13 at 13:22 -0400, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: > > On Apr 12, 2024, at 9:55 PM, ben via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > > wrote: > > Did any one ever use a keyboard to magtape as input device? > > My wife did, sort of: for a while she worked with IBM MT/ST word > processors. Those were very early word processing systems that used > a custom magnetic tape cartridge for storage and a Selectric > typewriter for I/O.
The first word processor I heard of was the "Redactron" that ran on the 7044 side of the 7094/7044 Direct Couple at the Caltech Jet Priopulsion Laboratory. I don't know whether it was used anywhere else. I don't know whether documents were ultimately stored on mag tape, or the 1405 RAMAC, or only on paper. > paul
