VT fixums

Nasty thing that printer - It had a sharp serrated tear off bar and loads of people got cut by it. If I remember rightly it had a helically wound wire on a cylinder running against a bar on the other side of the paper. It was said it worked in the same way as the WWII German Hellschreiber fax system. Regards ? Rod Smallwood ? ? -----Original Message----- From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tony Duell Sent: 13 July 2011 20:11 To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: VT fixums Now you know 2 such people. I have a (working) VT55 with the 'copier' (electrolytic printer) installed. I've never managed to get that to work 9maybe jsut old paper, etc) but the rest of the terminal works perfectiy. One odd thing abotu the VT52 is that the PCBs are all single-sided with hundreds of wire links., Was that really cheaper/more relaible than a double-sided PCB? The VT55 graphics board is actually the same form factor as a DEC Hex-height board, but the edge conenctors don't plug into anything (I forget if the fingersare conencted to anytraces o nthe PCB), there are some cables soldered to the board that plug into the VTv2 logic boards. -tony