11 Jun
1997
11 Jun
'97
7:19 a.m.
A.R. Duell wrote:
I collect _some_ printers - the ones I consider
interesting, or fine
examples of engineering. Amongst the ones I have are a couple oF ASR33's
(great fun to strip down and rebuild, particularly if you don't have the
service manual...), a few other Teleprinters (Creed 7E, Creed 444, Friden
Flexowriter), a couple of Sanders (12/7 and 700) - these are very well
built 7 pin dot matrix printers that use multiple passes of the printhead
(up to 8 in some fonts) to get letter quality output, a Versatec V80
(actually an ICL 6203, which has a GPIB interface), which uses an array of
electrodes to build up a charge image on specially coated paper, and then
pumps liquid toner over it, etc
Nice collection! For what it is worth, I have the 3 volume set of
Teletype manuals on the ASR 33, and one other (can't remember the
model.) If anyone needs the manual set, I think I know where another
one is.