On Saturday 26 January 2008 22:09, Randy Dawson wrote:
I'm with you, impact printers!!
I want a Printronix, P300, or P600 and then their later tiny desktop.
There was also a 3 color ribbon and hardware mod for these, TRILOG, that
would roll the paper back thru these for color printing. we had some
processor cardsthat went in these too, for barcode.
A color Versatec electrostatic would be welcome in my house.
The best classic computer stuff, is the $$$$ leading edge graphics from the
80's!!!
I was at Siggraph in 84 I think, at the Houston Astrodome, showing a
realtime 3D Rubics cube solution on a high end Jupiter terminal...
wow. Those were the days.
I don't remember what brand it was now, but back when we had the shop this
guy comes in for a printhead replacement (we had a pretty good supplier back
then), and while I was at it he had me put in this "color kit" for that
particular model, IIRC it was four stripes on that big old ribbon. Some
time later he comes back wanting to know what the warranty was on the new
printhead, I think we were getting kinda close to it. And he brought in a
sample of what he was doing with it, which was detailed graphics output of
some sort. Not that you were gonna get photo quality out of a dot matrix,
but he was gonna get as close as he could. :-)
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