28 Feb
2002
28 Feb
'02
8:59 a.m.
On Feb 28, 16:04, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
Once upon a time....
There were a bunch of these in the early hobby channel,
say, around 1981... the seller had complete instructions
for interfacing them, and included some rudimentary code
for using overstrikes to simulate characters bot available
in its 5-level (Murray?) coding scheme.
They were going for $150 at the time, and I still could
kick myself for not grabbing one, they looked pretty cool.
Anyone got a garage full of them?
Nope, my first printer was a 7B -- about 1981 -- but it's long since gone.
It cost me a lot less than $150! I'm sure I've mentioned before how I
wrote a driver for a Sorcerer for it, and how I changed the positions of
some of the type slugs to make overstrikes easier.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York