28 Dec
2007
28 Dec
'07
12:21 p.m.
Hi, Henk,
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 08:28:22PM +0100, Henk Gooijen wrote:
Not your text... just what you quote.
Date: Fri, 28
Dec 2007 18:47:10 +0000> From: ethan.dicks at usap.gov>...
I am using webmail, but it seems that it uses the Outlook Express settings.
I hope this is not garbbling everyting into one long unreadable line. I have found the two M7258, and downloaded the LP11
user's manual.
Nice.
Had to go to the attick twice, because the etch on the
M7258 says LS11,
*not* LP11, so I thought I did not remember the M-number correctly :-)
Ah...sorry... LS11 rings a bell as a printer interface, too.
I even found the round cable with headers at both ends
*and* text on
it written that says "LA180". Now, that *must* be the right cable!
Perfect. It's probably like a falt cable, but only with the
essential wires run.
The combination of the LA180 with an M7258 is called
LA11.
Make sense.
I checked the jumpers on the M7258. It is set for
LA180 operation, so
after cleaning the cable (very dirty!) I hope to print some lines tomorrow!
Once you get it checked out, one nice thing to do with an LA180 is
overstrike ASCII art. There's a really fancy picture of a digitized
cat that I have on an OS/8 floppy somewhere. I'm sure the data file
is out there to be grabbed.
Use a fresh ribbon and give it lots of time to complete. It's
stunning.
Perhaps I will shoot some pictures to
"upgrade" my peripherals pages :-)
When you do, shoot us a URL.
The second M7258 is jumpered differently, so it was
used with one of the
other printers mentioned in the user's manual.
Since you have the manual there, out of curiosity, what other printers
does it support? LP05 and stuff?
I even found a third M7258
with a single height board connected via 2" flat cable directly to the BERG
header on the M7258. The M-number of that single height module is M59??
Sorry, I forgot the last 2 digits. If somebody needs to know, I will go up
the attick for a third time :-)
Hmm... that sounds interesting. I wonder if that's stock, or just
something someone stuck together because it happens to fit. If I'm
picturing it right, the only place for the signals to go are out of the
edge-fingers of the M59xx module, right? That doesn't sound like any
Unibus thing _I_ can think of.
Thanks for sharing experiences from the past Ethan. I
always love to read
those stories.
You're welcome. I was just in the right place at the right time, and
managed to get my hands on a PDP-8 of my own when I was 16, and on a
room full of PDP-11s and VAXen at work by the time I was 18. I also had
lots and lots of hands-on experience at the time (approx 1982-1994),
building and repairing machines (mine and my employer's) by picking up
"cheap" boxes and boards that nobody wanted anymore.
Once the machines were assembled and working, it was all OS installs,
application programming, etc. I had a blast working with the stuff
of that era. Fortunately for me, I still have piles of hardware and
documenation that I didn't have to leave behind.
-ethan
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