Olivetti teletypewriter TC485

UvA Computer Museum catalogue nr 93.45

olivetti terminal
The Olivetti teletypewriter is a electromechanical alphanumeric terminal, using a matrix printer mechanism (30 char/sec) and a tape cartridge for local data storage. Many of these terminals were used for teaching at our university's Mathematics department in the 1970's, before Computer Science became a regular academic discipline in the Netherlands.
The illustration is taken from an advertisement in Scientific American, July 1971.

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