Comments on: The TV Typewriter

The TV Typewriter

braun_richard — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:45:06 -0800

Typing...on a screen! Text (and cover image) of a 1973 issue of Radio-Electronics mag, showing a new fangled way of typing with a TV screen. I like how the mag is billed as "for MEN with ideas in electronics." Heh...

By: SAC

SAC — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:36:52 -0800

The link won't work for me.

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:45:11 -0800

It works for me (Safari/OS X) On the one hand it is easy to look back on these 1973 people and be amused. On the other hand, they got a man to the moon four years earlier. I wonder what that font was?

By: yhbc

yhbc — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:46:22 -0800

SAC - you have to type like this

By: yhbc

yhbc — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:48:17 -0800

... to get in Dang, left off that part.

By: 3.2.3

3.2.3 — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:05:10 -0800

Wow. I used to read Don Lancaster's every word. He was the open tech prophet of his day. His TTL Cookbook "changed my life" in that it made computers of the day click in my brain and put me on the course whereby I make my living. He was also a pretty weird hacker of capitalism. Sample: "The simplest solution to outrageously high medical insurance premiums is: Don't get sick."

By: RavinDave

RavinDave — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:18:55 -0800

Wow. I remember seeing that very magazine on sale. If you'll excuse me now, I need some Geritol before Matlock comes on. *groan*

By: davy

davy — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:44:20 -0800

The byline was "By DON LANCASTER." Hail the inventor of teh Internets!

By: f5seth

f5seth — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:01:47 -0800

His GuruGrams are great.