18 Apr
2013
18 Apr
'13
9:36 p.m.
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:33:58 -0700
From: Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Subject: What are these Tektronix paper rolls? (8.5-inch wide,
3.25-inch diameter)
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I have some boxes of Tektronix paper rolls and I have no idea where
they were used. The rolls are 8.5-inches wide and have a diameter of
3.25-inches. They are packed 6 to a box and I have around six boxes
of these which are all sealed except for one. I can't find any
obvious part numbers anywhere. The boxes say Made in Japan and have
JAL Cargo stickers on them and were shipped to PDX. These might date
back to somewhere in the 1980's. They came along with some Tektronix
4170 systems I picked up a while back.
Tektronix made a fiber-faceplate optical printer for the
4010-series storage tube graphics terminals. They were hideous,
and made horrible brown copies that smelled bad, and the
printer would sometimes give off ammonia fumes so bad that
your eyes would tear. This sounds exactly like the paper
for that.
Jon