13 Mar
2011
13 Mar
'11
2:27 p.m.
Thankfully I no longer have access to Versatec Plotters. About 6-7
years ago after not having touched plotters in several years I was
given the entire printing environment to support. A couple years
later I was horrified to uncover hidden in old records that we had a
whole pile of the plotters sitting in warehouse storage costing the
company money. They were disposed of.
I do have a Q-Bus interface for one sitting out in the garage.
Zane
At 1:34 AM -0500 3/13/11, Randy Dawson wrote:
Naptha (charcoal lighter) works.
Iteresting subject Zane!
I rode head on several versatecs myself, in seismic plots (including
lunar for APOLLO), oilfield well logs etc. Loved that machine.
I still have Versaplot (fortran) source if you want it.
For a while there, the had a PC DMA board I got really good at
writing code for, to load my next frame slice before the printer
paused and the fountain shut down.
Nobody wants nasty toner bands...
Randy
PS all copier fluid and toner for liquid copiers worked for me, 80s,
no need to buy the versatec stuff. Worked in my symbolics printers
too.
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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:02:58 -0800
To: classiccmp at classiccmp.org
From: healyzh at aracnet.com
Subject: Strange Versatec Plotter question
A very long time ago, I used to support three Versatec plotters.
We'd have to use a clear liquid to clean them up. It wasn't
Isopropyl Alcohol. Does anyone happen to know what it might have
been?
Zane
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