Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ima.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ima!johnl From: johnl@ima.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: IBM CORRECTING SELECTRIC TYPEWRITER Message-ID: <38800006@ima.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 20:07:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ima.38800006 Posted: Wed Jul 17 20:07:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 23:40:50 EDT References: <718@ihlpa.UUCP> Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:ihlpa:-71800:ima:38800006:000:627 Nf-From: ima!johnl Jul 17 20:07:00 1985 If the selectric typewriter you want to convert is an electronic model 65 or 85, IBM themselves have a kit to plug the typewriter into the printer port of a PC. We have one -- it works fine. The conversion from ascii to typewriter code is made in software, and IBM provides a program that lurks in front of the printer port, doing the translation automatically. I expect you could plug the typewriter into any other computer's Centronics port, but you'd have to deal with the translation yourself. John Levine, Javelin Software, Cambridge MA 617-494-1400 { decvax!cca | think | ihnp4 | cbosgd }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.ARPA