9 Jan
2006
9 Jan
'06
1:02 a.m.
Hi,
Tony Duell said:
I rememebr when I got my first Termiprinter, with the
manual, I needed to
take it apart to clean it. I took out the hammer bank and stripped it
down, cleaned out the gunge, etc, and then looked in the manual for how
to reasemble it. All it told me was that the hammer bank was not
field-repairable. ARGH!. Yes, I got it going again, it wasn't even very
difficult.
I remember what an annoying racket those hammers made! Someone always
seemed to want a 50-page report just when I was trying to carry on
a telephone conversation in our, otherwise quite quiet, office.
They eventually gave us a (slightly) sound-proof cover...
Still, it was a nicer noise than the screeching 24-pin dot matrix we had
in later years!
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!