[COFF] Daisy wheel printers (was: [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature)

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday,  9 November 2020 at  9:26:05 -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 11:36 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com> wrote:
>
>> The golfball console for the /360 was much earlier than that, like the /360
>> itself.
>>
> Hmmm, I think what I said is correct. The S/360 system was released in
> 1964. My friend Russ Roebling (360/50 chief designer ) once told me the
> console came from the office products (typewriter) division.  I wish I
> could remember the story he told me, but IIRC it was something WRT to
> politics inside of IBM and ensuring the console device and the 360's launch
> between the divisions.  [Just like every large firm I have worked, I'm not
> really surprised to hear that divisional fiefdoms were rampant at IBM in
> those days, too].
>
> I'm fairly sure that the Selectric (I) was early1960s (I think 61/62).   I
> just don't remember the model number of the S/360's console (every device
> at IBM had numeric names), your memory is likely that the number was 7xy.
>  But as I said, I'm fair sure that the guts of the console were based on
> the Selectric's design.

Thanks for the interesting details.  Yes, that all matches my
recollection.  Originally you were talking about mid- to late 1970s,
and that's what my "much earlier" referred to.

Greg
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