{"id":61105,"date":"2024-07-04T22:02:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T02:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=d9745719a24cbcb4784997d6683a9e0f"},"modified":"2024-07-04T22:02:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T02:02:10","slug":"the-ibm-magnetic-tape-selectric-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=61105","title":{"rendered":"The IBM Magnetic Tape Selectric Composer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bruchez.name\/posts\/ibm-mt-sc-1\/\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Neaaaat.  I have a restored(ish) Selectric II and have done the reading on typewriter and especially Selectric history, they're a fun chapter in technology.  \nThis serious collector found a MT\/ST (Probably the first thing that could properly be called a wordprocessor.  The typewriter parts are coupled to a core-and-SLT baby computer with some magnetic tape drives for storage) - which were so exotic and generally leased that no surviving examples were known to exist.  Locally.  The whole multi-part system with one input only recorder unit and a full IO unit and accessories. With their service manuals and records. \n...At least none of my hobby projects are that big and exotic.<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=40879376\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=61105\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}