Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:33:58 -0700 From: Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: What are these Tektronix paper rolls? (8.5-inch wide, 3.25-inch diameter) Message-ID: <CAM2UOwLhG9s_qP11Ez4TmzsVBsviKf7jcUykGy8SeX_7yQdduw at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I have some boxes of Tektronix paper rolls and I have no idea where they were used. The rolls are 8.5-inches wide and have a diameter of 3.25-inches. They are packed 6 to a box and I have around six boxes of these which are all sealed except for one. I can't find any obvious part numbers anywhere. The boxes say Made in Japan and have JAL Cargo stickers on them and were shipped to PDX. These might date back to somewhere in the 1980's. They came along with some Tektronix 4170 systems I picked up a while back. Tektronix made a fiber-faceplate optical printer for the 4010-series storage tube graphics terminals. They were hideous, and made horrible brown copies that smelled bad, and the printer would sometimes give off ammonia fumes so bad that your eyes would tear. This sounds exactly like the paper for that. Jon