On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM Frank Leonhardt via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks - I wasn't sure. I've actually got a few Teletype 32 and 33s in > my shed but I'm too scared to turn them on after 40 years to check. When > I was coding they were earlier Creed models (mostly). It think one was > an Olivetti, which had style, and an ITT branded 444 that looked like it The Creed 444 scanned manual I have says 'ITT Creed' on it (and the address is given as Brighton, not Croydon). I think ITT owned Creed at that pont The Creed 444 can also backspace the punch (and will use unpunched tape). > was from the 21st Century (as I imagined imagined, incorrectly, what the > 21st would look like at the time time). I stopped using them even as a > printer when the FX-80 came out :-) (Alas, I only kept the Teletype > Corporation ones, which I kept to scavenge parts). > > I seem to recall backed up tape forming a loop rather than rewinding > onto the spool. Yes, the main use of this facility was to immediately correct a typo by backspacing the tape and overpunching the incorrect character with all holes. You didn't need to rewind the tape if you only have 1/10" of it to bother about. -tony
