25 Jul
2007
25 Jul
'07
1:42 p.m.
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 19:18, Tom Peters wrote:
I've got an Apple Image Writer dot-matrix printer
to start with. It's the
older version, I think based on a C.Itoh design, or maybe the NEC P8023?
It's serial interface only, and there's life left in the ribbon. I didn't
connect it to a computer but powered up holding the Form Feed button, it
prints a barber-pole test.
It's model A9M0303, which is not the more widely available ImageWriter II.
It's the original.
Yes, there were several different printers out there with basically the same
guts in 'em. I had one at one point in time with a "DEC" brand on it, and
what was interesting about that one was that when it printed a "*" character
what you got was a five-pointed star. :-)
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin