wrote:
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:40:19 -0400, Gogarty
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My printer in those days was an enormous Anderson-Jacobson terminal which had
an IBM mechanism including the golf ball typehead.

I can't begin to tell you how much we liked the dot matrix printer
when it started replacing all of those Selectric based consoles.

The selectric was an improvement over the NCR 315 console which was
originally an IBM typewriter pre Selectric with solenoids to trip the
hammer. Then we had on the later model a Teletype receive only terminal
that was super light duty, that was designed to turn on only while a
message was being received. We ran the shafts in oilite bushings 24/7. Cut
grooves in the shaft. PIA to rebuild.