14 Jun
2006
14 Jun
'06
11:07 p.m.
From: "Joe R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com>
The chains in the ODEC printers weren't made to order. Well maybe they
were, depending on your definition of 'made to order'.
It's a long time ago I saw a 1403, but if I'm not mistaken, the national
characters like ? ? ? were on the same slug. So I must modify my statement
to "slugs were made to order". However, this implied that the
firmware"connecting" the chain to the character set (I dont know how to
phrase that in a more intelligent way), had to be modified too.
Now that I come to think of it, we had a special chain for OCR. This one was
used for writing bonus checks at the end of the year.
Nico
>> Interesting, The chain printers that I
worked on all had the exact
same
>> number of different characters. Depending on
the number of characters
in
>> the character set that was used on that
partticular printer they
usually
had 2 or 3 COMPLETE character sets.
Chains could be (and were) made to order (more or less),