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golf-ball printer: n. The IBM 2741, a slow but letter-quality printing device and terminal based on the IBM Selectric typewriter.
The `golf ball' was a little spherical frob bearing reversed embossed images of 88 different characters arranged on four parallels of latitude...
golf-ball printer n. obs. The IBM 2741, a slow but letter-quality printing device and terminal based on the IBM Selectric typewriter.
The `golf ball' was a little spherical frob bearing reversed embossed images of 88 different characters arranged on four parallels of latitude...
he automated office is still in its infancy. More IBM Selectric typewriters are stolen in a year than word processing computers sold.
.." -- A quote from 1988 SF Chronicle...
bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
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