Re: FWD: Paul Tibbits, pilot of "Enola Gay", dead at 92


"Pat Flannery" <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The friend who gave it to me mentioned that the whole keyboard's design
was based on that of the IBM Selectric typewriter.
I've used one of those, and still haven't figured out exactly how the
letter ball worked from a mechanical point of view; but it was great when
you revved the damn thing up and it hummed and vibrated like it had a 1/4
horsepower electric motor from a washing machine running inside of it.
You'd think the SOB was going to jump right off the desk after tearing
your fingers off. :-D

Oh yeah... I keep hoping to find one of those in a garage sale some day.


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