11 Jun
1997
11 Jun
'97
11:53 a.m.
Along the lines of saving stuff, does anyone collect the old printers?
I have several including the SWTP 40 column printer, the usual
assortment of Tandy and CBM printers, a couple of DecWriters (LA36), an
early Centronics, a number of daisy wheel printers, and my newest
addition, an ASR 33. But I also run into quite a few (usually free)
I collect _some_ printers - the ones I consider interesting, or fine
examples of engineering. Amongst the ones I have are a couple oF ASR33's
(great fun to strip down and rebuild, particularly if you don't have the
service manual...), a few other Teleprinters (Creed 7E, Creed 444, Friden
Flexowriter), a couple of Sanders (12/7 and 700) - these are very well
built 7 pin dot matrix printers that use multiple passes of the printhead
(up to 8 in some fonts) to get letter quality output, a Versatec V80
(actually an ICL 6203, which has a GPIB interface), which uses an array of
electrodes to build up a charge image on specially coated paper, and then
pumps liquid toner over it, etc
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-tony
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