25 May
2003
25 May
'03
4:10 p.m.
And what about the Termiprinters-none of them left now
either I guess- think
Are those the ones with the bammer bank and print belt, a bit like a mini
line printer? Not a true line printer, though -- a maximum of 4 hammers
can fire at a time since the PSU couldn't handle any more.
If so, I have a pair of them, along with the field service manual. No
complete schematics :-(. Mine started off as a 74 column KSR and a 118
column RO, but I moved the wider hammer bank into the KSR machine and
made the appropriate changes to the jumpering on the PCBs.THe only
problem was the print position indicator (a numeric display indicating
where the virtual printhead is) -- RO models didn't have it, and the one
in my KSR was only 2 digits (obviously). I added an extra red LED to
indicate the hundreds (no way could I get the original filament
displays). A kludge, but it worked...
I saw a couple of the answerback pcb's out in the
garage recently-the ones
with a strappable diode matrix assy to program up the answerback code. Had
I never had the answerback option.
20 or so of the basic 300 baud variants pass thru my
hands about 15 years
back but no idea where any of them are now. There was even a 'fast' version
(badged HP) that could print about twice as fast as the standard ones. Might
Mine are ICL-badged, and at least one has the 600 baud position.
-tony