Mission: Emulate a Soroban Computeriter

In the early 1960s a company called Soroban Engineering produced a product they called a Computeriter. This was an IBM electric typewriter, modified with an electro-mechanical encoder to allow a computer to sense what keys on the keyboard had been pressed, and solenoids to allow the computer to operate the keys to print text. This photo is taken from a Soroban technical manual, available on the…