An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- April 3, 2024
- April 2, 2024
- April 1, 2024
- March 31, 2024
- March 30, 2024
- March 29, 2024
- March 28, 2024
Some of Our Sources
- Slashdot
- Engadget
- Simplebits
- Team Treehouse
- Vandelay Design
- Web Designer Depot
- Noupe
- 24 Ways
- Stylized Web
- The Verge
Help Webnuz
Referal links:
July 2, 2012 10:00 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tl3BjJMppko/how-the-selectrics-digital-t.html
How the Selectric's digital-to-analogue converter worked
This great video explainer shows the inner workings of a digital-to-analogue converter, using the IBM Selectric's early example of the form to illustrate the mechanism: Using slow motion video Bill Hammack, the engineer guy, shows how IBM's revolutionary "golf ball" typewriter works. He describes the marvelous completely mechanical digital-to-analogue converter that translates the discrete impulse [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tl3BjJMppko/how-the-selectrics-digital-t.html
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
