29 Jan
2008
29 Jan
'08
3:41 a.m.
Sat, 26 Jan 2008, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Okay, so who wants a working Diablo Hitype II? Spare
wheels and
(probably dried-out) ribbons. Free for pickup, or for the cost of
shipping.
Probably in America and thus out of my reach, unless somebody coming to the upcoming VCFe
in Munich offered to bring it along.
"Ed" <listmailgoeshere at gmail.com> wrote:
Back in 1995 I used an IBM 3262 belt printer which was
attached to an
AS/400. I don't know what its native interface was, but the company I
was working for had got hold of a third-party interface box that was
mounted on the side of said printer and connected it to the AS/400 via
twinax. Funny thing was, there was also a Centronics socket on the
base of said interface unit...
That unit would do 600LPM, so I was told. It was about a 1m x 1m x 1m
cube, and it was *loud*.
Ah, I totally forgot about telling that I at one time also was involved with the rescue of
such a setup (3262 and interface box) from a big mailorder store in Germany, which was
passed to Hans Franke for possible future use with his/our 4331. The print server or how
it's to be called boots from a floppy disk on power-up.
The printer had been transported to my school in the Janitor's van and stored there
for some weeks. When we came to pick it up in with our station wagon, it showed that the
unfortunate piece of equipment was a tiny bit too large to fit through the hatch although
there would have been ample space inside. We solved the problem by rolling the printer to
our garage on it's own casters (one block from the school) and taking off the outer
panels there so we could deliver it to Munich the following weekend.
In my list, I forgot to mention my only GPIB-enabled printer, a CBM 8023 (9 needles,
IIRC). At the risk of leaving the classic definition of "printers", I also have
to brag about last week's great find, an Agfa PCR II film recorder, unfortunately
missing the camera body that belongs to it - a modified Nikon N6000, according to internet
sources.
So long,
Arno
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