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[Kent Rankin]

>> The machine with the paper tape, magnetic cards, real core, and vacuum
>> tubes was an NCR 315 "mainframe."  The "console printer" was an IBM
>> Selectric typewriter with its actuators wired into the desk-sized
>> operator's station.  The rest of the design followed that lead.
>
>Excellent copy!  Made my day!
>
>The printers/consoles I always liked for a classic look were the
>Friden Flexowriters.  You see them in the movies, sometimes.   They
>were slow, ugly, and noisy, and looked like the secretary's '30's style
>typewriter.  Alas, I never could quite get them set up to run on my 8
>bit machines, and settled for ASR-33's instead, where everything was
>in one ``box''.   They were not very reliable though, compared
>to the Model 37's or the later Model 40 chain printers.


    The one that I love, and I even still have one that I use occasionally
was the Digital DECWriter(Mine is a model IV).  120 or 300bps.

    The only real problem is the pile of paper that it consumes in a typical
session.  Quite fun, though, still the same.


                                            -Kent Rankin