Re: THEORY: [i:]=[ij]? (was Re: Pronouncing "Boreanesia")

Roger Mills wrote:
>
> Robert Hailman wrote:
> -->I want an IPA ball! I've got one of those IBM electric typewriters, but
> >no extra type balls. I hadn't thought of using it for IPA. I haven't
> >found any type balls in my exploits yet.>
>
> Good Luck!  Maybe a linguistics dept. somewhere will have a tag sale of
> no-longer-needed equipment.  Or the estate sale of a deceased
> professor...... Does EBay have a category "IBM collectibles"?   You could
> write to IBM, but I think we can predict their reply....... even though
> there's probably several gross of the things in a warehouse in Dubuque,
> gathering dust.
With a big company like IBM, I'm sure there's quite a few in a
warehouse, but they've been long forgotten. I'll have to keep my eye out
for type balls, I'm sure there's one for sale somewhere.

> You're lucky your machine still works.  I had a big electric Olivetti
> (daisy-wheel model) that was supposed to function as printer to an Apple II.
> I hardly ever used it; finally took it to a resale shop.  "Does it work?"
> "Of course..."  Plug in, start typing Now is the time.......:  cxu wr nua
> rzmp....  mechanical Alzheimer's I guess.
I haven't used mine in quite a while, but it worked perfectly last time
I used it.

My mom wrote her MSW thesis using an old IBM XT with a daisy-wheel
printer, and as a practical joke my dad found a Hebrew daisy-wheel and
put it in without telling anyone but me. I'll never forget the look on
my mom's face when her thesis started printing out in Hebrew.

--
Robert