VT52s, VT61s lots of DEC and DG keyboards- return trip through Maine, MA, NY, PA, OH, IN to IL

13 Oct 2015

...
  >> I had
a little Comprint printer in the 1970s/1980s that used something  sort of like this.
 The paper was aluminum coated, thus conductive.  The 
On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, tony duell wrote:
That is how the Sinclair ZX printer works and also things like the Axiom
EX820. Spark (about 80-100V IIRC) to aluminium-coated paper.

Even Radio Shack had one of those!  But not for long.  Crumpling the paper 
could lose the image.  ANd THERMAL printers couldn't handle leaving a 
printout in the sun.

...
  The VT52 printer is not like that. The raw paper looks
like paper 
 (slightly yellow, but that might just be age), it is not metal-coated. 
So, NOT the same.

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VT52s, VT61s lots of DEC and DG keyboards- return trip through Maine, MA, NY, PA, OH, IN to IL