IBM 2741 ball element terminal / Epson FX-80

[Richard]

In article <43B5A92A.4050607 at msm.umr.edu>,
    jim stephens <jwstephens at msm.umr.edu>  writes:

> [IBM 2741s] are not too popular because I believe they used custom
> type balls, not the standard typewriter ones. [...]

There are multiple kinds of type balls.  The IBM 2741 used ones that
were interchangeable with certain models of typewriter (I know because
I used to swap the type balls around between the printer and
typewriters to get the type I wanted :-).
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