17 Apr
2007
17 Apr
'07
2:10 a.m.
Barry Watzman wrote:
Re: "It looks like the Heath colors from the H8
series. I suspect it is a
very limited edition of a Heath terminal"
Heath never made anything in any color even remotely resembling that [blue],
nor did Heath ever offer a selectric-based product. [The only colors used
by Heath computer products were black, a cream off-white, two shades of
gray, and the beige/tan colors used in the Z-100 and some other products.]
In fact, Selectric-based printers had disappeared (as new products) by the
time Heath entered the PC business, relatively late, in 1977.
Barry Watzman
[former Product Line Director for Heathkit computers and Zenith Data
Systems]
It was interfaced to one of the H8's I got, but looks like a kludge,
nothing original. Don't know if one of the floppies has a driver or not,
I have many I have to go through that are marked "printer" (after I get
a system up and running!). One of the items I got was an H9 terminal.
It powers up but works funny. Characters start at the top RIGHT, shift
left for awhile, then drop a line or two and move to the left side.
Any idea what to check? Power supplies are OK, I brought them up slowly
and reformed the caps. Voltages are OK for what I think they should be.
I have not yet found schematics though I'm supposed to have gotten them.
Bob