30 Apr
1999
30 Apr
'99
3:37 a.m.
Hey DEC DECMATE folks!
The fellow whose msg is copied below is looking for some advice on
re-belting a DECMATE II. As I have neither experience nor manual on the
machine, I feel some of you may help instead as you're the types who really
could.
Email directly to Bill. The machine is somewhere in Minnesota. Thanks muchly!
Regards, Chris
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:42:58 -0500
From: wdoherty <wdoherty(a)uswest.net>
To: cfandt(a)netsync.net
Subject: decmateII
My mother-in-law (you can see why this is important to me!) has a
DECMATEII Cira 1983. The belt on the printer broke. DEC will sell her
the belt but nobody knows how to put it on. can you recommend sites,
collectors, or hobbyiests who may have this knowledge? She is also
willing to sell to a collector.
Thank you,
Bill Doherty
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30 Apr
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9:56 a.m.
Upon the date 07:20 PM 4/30/99 +0100, Tony Duell said something like:
>
> Hey DEC DECMATE folks!
>
> The fellow whose msg is copied below is looking for some advice on
> re-belting a DECMATE II. As I have neither experience nor manual on the
> machine, I feel some of you may help instead as you're the types who really
> could.
>
> Email directly to Bill. The machine is somewhere in Minnesota. Thanks
muchly!
Sent to classiccmp, because I don't htink it will be of much help to the
owner...
My first question is which _printer_ is this? IIRC the DECmate could use
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Well, I just passed the request for help onward to the list as I figured it
was a knowlegeable resource in such matters.
I thought I recognized DECMATE as being a computer but I was not sure. I
don't have/never saw/own no docs/recall poorly any such discussions/may not
ever see anything DECMATE for some time if ever one comes my way. Sorry to
have wasted the list bandwidth with this but the fellow would appreciate a
bit of help if nobody has yet replied.
7:48 p.m.
It would help rather more to know what kind of printer it is. The fact
that it's a DECmate narrows down the range of possible printers somewhat,
but really isn't enough.
Although I'd strongly recommend that anyone still using a DECmate for real
work give some serious consideration to moving to something a bit more
modern, like WordStar on an IBM XT. The DECmate is a nice toy (I have
several), but if it breaks you're pretty much S.O.L. Several people have
written me asking if I could recover valuable data from their broken
DECmates, but they didn't feel like paying my consulting rates.
Hey DEC DECMATE folks!
The fellow whose msg is copied below is looking for some advice on
re-belting a DECMATE II. As I have neither experience nor manual on the
machine, I feel some of you may help instead as you're the types who really
could.
Email directly to Bill. The machine is somewhere in Minnesota. Thanks muchly!
Regards, Chris
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>Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:42:58 -0500
>From: wdoherty <wdoherty(a)uswest.net>
>To: cfandt(a)netsync.net
>Subject: decmateII
>
>My mother-in-law (you can see why this is important to me!) has a
>DECMATEII Cira 1983. The belt on the printer broke. DEC will sell her
>the belt but nobody knows how to put it on. can you recommend sites,
>collectors, or hobbyiests who may have this knowledge? She is also
>willing to sell to a collector.
>
>Thank you,
>Bill Doherty
1 May
1 May
9:07 a.m.
It would help rather more to know what kind of printer
it is. The fact
that it's a DECmate narrows down the range of possible printers somewhat,
but really isn't enough.
Although I'd strongly recommend that anyone still using a DECmate for real
work give some serious consideration to moving to something a bit more
modern, like WordStar on an IBM XT. The DECmate is a nice toy (I have
several), but if it breaks you're pretty much S.O.L. Several people have
written me asking if I could recover valuable data from their broken
DECmates, but they didn't feel like paying my consulting rates.
I recommend WPS-PC or WPS-80 on a Rainbow or DEC Robin (VT180).
Nothing (and I'm a big WordStar fan) is as nice (and easy) to use for straight
word processing as a DECmate type machine with a DEC WPS style
system.
Bill
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