4 Mar
2013
4 Mar
'13
12:55 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
The daisywheel printer that I would like to find (although how I would
get ti shipped is another matter) is the HP9871. It was commonly driven
my an HP9830 (and I ahve the itnerface for it).
It's a very odd design. Msot diasywheel printers have a motor to move the
carriage and a motro to spinf the daisywheel, the latter motor being
mounted on the carriage. The HP9871 has 2 motors alrightm, but they're
both o nthe chassis. If they turn in the same direction the carriage
moves. If they turn in oppsoite diractions the daisywheel spins. All done
with a long toothed belt that runs about 4 times acocross the chassis.
And that alas is the problem. AFAIN no such belts have survived, all have
decayed iwth age. I would like to see if there is any workaround....
-tony
I can't give the darned things away. I have
both a Qume and a AT&T-badged
daisywheel at the moment with absolutely no one willing to spring to ship
the the things.
I used to use a daisywheel printer at work in 1984, but even I would
pause at the shipping cost of one. They aren't light.
About the only one I'd even consider taking on (and that's *consider*,
mind you) is one that worked with WPS-8 and the LPQ8 interface. I
don't remember the exact DEC model number, but they bought someone's
daisywheel printer and mounted it into a rubber-rimmed hole in a small
rolly office supply cabinet as their high-quality (non-dot-matrix)
printer option for WPS. It's heavy enough that it would have to go
palletized via Craters and Freighters or some similar service.