8 Aug
2011
8 Aug
'11
2:31 p.m.
> BTW, I did the documentation for XenoCopy on a
Corona Data Systems/Cordat
> laser printer controller, whose software REFUSES to work on a 286.
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
Was that one of the cards that used the PC to create
the page bitmap nd
set it driectly to the printer engine (probably a Canon CX-VDO)? I know
that printer fairly well, having created one to use on my PERQ (which has
a similar printer interface).
That's the one.
I also cabled the same one to an Eiconscript board and a Jlaser
Pity you can no longer get toner cartridges
for it :-(
But, until the drum, etc. wear out,you just need some bulk toner and a
set of torx bits
The reasonable
man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. - George Bernard Shaw
'Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man'
As I have said here before, I can't think of one development in the last
30 years which has actaully improved my life ,or made it easier to do the
things I want to do (I can think of many that have had the reverse effect
though).