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Slothie · 5th Jul 2020, 4:10 pm

I imagine a lot of colleges would have teletypes and American electronics magazines had numerous TV Typewriter and VDU projects. I had a GE Terminet 300 Teketype in 1980 my father rescued from a skip when they were upgrading to VT100s so I imagine other hobbiests did. I interfaced it to my PET to use as a printer.
But you're right, home computers only really took off when they had TV interfaces and built in keyboard.

5th Jul 2020, 4:10 pm	#366
Slothie Octode Join Date: Apr 2018 Location: Newbury, Berkshire, UK. Posts: 1,287	Re: Recreating the Bywood Scrumpi I imagine a lot of colleges would have teletypes and American electronics magazines had numerous TV Typewriter and VDU projects. I had a GE Terminet 300 Teketype in 1980 my father rescued from a skip when they were upgrading to VT100s so I imagine other hobbiests did. I interfaced it to my PET to use as a printer. But you're right, home computers only really took off when they had TV interfaces and built in keyboard.