3 Mar
2013
3 Mar
'13
11:45 p.m.
On 03/03/2013 10:47 PM, Arno Kletzander wrote:
What I'm missing yet is a "real"
daisywheel printer (I have both a
Triumph-Adler and an IBM typewriter with bolt-on interface boards -
not that I would mind having a Diablo terminal at some time too), any
sort of High Speed Printer from the olden days (drum, chain, belt,
shuttle, or single-line needle) or truly esoteric stuff like the
(DataProducts) hydraulic driven needle printer our local university
collection has.
I can't give the darned things away. I have both a Qume and a
AT&T-badged daisywheel at the moment with absolutely no one willing to
spring to ship the the things.
My favorite workhorse small printer was the Teletype Model 40 line
printer. It would just run and run and could sit on a tabletop.
Multipass dot-matrix with downloadable NLQ fonts are another
soon-to-be-forgotten technology. I think Sanders started that one...
--Chuck