3 Oct
2001
3 Oct
'01
10:22 a.m.
Am scrapping several DEC LA100 DM and Diablo/Wang HyType DW printers; anybody need any
parts before they go?
Also have manuals including Service manual for the LA100.
mike
mhstein(a)usa.net
3 Oct
3 Oct
10:43 a.m.
I noticed that I still have a tractor feed and a sheet feeder (model F10) for
Diablo printers. The F10 fits the 630 and the 620, among others, (those are the
ones on which I've used it) and the tractor feed is from a 630. I've also got
an extra logic board for a 630, and a few printwheels. These are all avaiable
for the cost of postage.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "M H Stein" <mhstein(a)usa.net>
To: "'ClassicComputers'" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 4:22 PM
Subject: Scrapping LA100 & Diablo printers
Am scrapping several DEC LA100 DM and Diablo/Wang
HyType DW printers; anybody
need any parts before they go?
Also have manuals including Service manual for the
LA100.
mike
mhstein(a)usa.net
11:26 a.m.
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, M H Stein wrote:
Am scrapping several DEC LA100 DM and Diablo/Wang
HyType DW printers; anybody need any parts before they go?
Also have manuals including Service manual for the LA100.
mike
mhstein(a)usa.net
If any of the Diablo printers are DTC models they have interesting ancient
Prolog cards in them (proto-STDbus?) using an Intel 4040!
Peter Wallace
2:16 p.m.
I have a working Diable 620 daisywheel printer in Denver, CO... No
reasonable offer refused...
clint
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, M H Stein wrote:
Am scrapping several DEC LA100 DM and Diablo/Wang
HyType DW printers; anybody need any parts before they go?
Also have manuals including Service manual for the LA100.
mike
mhstein(a)usa.net
3:26 p.m.
New subject: Scrapping Tektronix 4695 (was Re: Scrapping LA100 & Diablo printers)
--- M H Stein <mhstein(a)usa.net> wrote:
Am scrapping several DEC LA100 DM and Diablo/Wang
HyType DW printers;
anybody need any parts before they go?
Also have manuals including Service manual for the LA100.
In the vein of printer scrappage, I'm finally going to dump my first
ever and most worthless inkjet printer in the world - the Tek 4695.
I got it at the Hamvention a _long_ time ago for $200 when that was
a scorching deal. I found out why - I was really looking for a 4696,
since AmigaDOS came with drivers for it. The '95 clogs. Bad. At
least I didn't go broke buying ink for it - a former client *gave* me
dozens of ink cartridges because they dumped their printer a couple years
earlier.
Every couple of years, I seem to make a purchase that does _not_ work
out. This is the one from about 1989. Later, it was a Syquest 44Mb
drive. It was nice, but the carts cost so much that I never bought any
more; I just used it as an expensive 44Mb semi-fixed SCSI drive. :-(
To that end, I have decided to get rid of the 4695. If anyone is foolish
enough to want it, it's yours. Otherwise, if you want parts, make a wish-
list and I'll see if there's anything worth scrapping out of it (I'm
curious what processor is inside). You can ask for the printhead, but I
think the yellow jets are fried (or impacted).
-ethan
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4 Oct
4 Oct
1:01 a.m.
New subject: Scrapping Tektronix 4695 (was Re: Scrapping LA100 & Diablo printers)
At 08:26 PM 10/3/01 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Later, it was a Syquest 44Mb
drive. It was nice, but the carts cost so much that I never bought any
more; I just used it as an expensive 44Mb semi-fixed SCSI drive. :-(
Hey, if you need a few Syquest drives or carts ... :-)
- John
4:26 a.m.
New subject: Scrapping Tektronix 4695 (was Re: Scrapping LA100 & Diablo printers)
At 08:26 PM 10/3/01 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
When I bought my 44 MB first Syquest I budgeted for 5 cartridges, and used
it quite a bit, initially for backups, and later on as just a handy
portable scsi boot device. Once I had a bootable CD that kind of fell off,
but recently I bought a EZ230 and a 270 MB drive, and those I expect to put
some usefull things on (small projects like a NETBsd firewall to copy to
internal drives).
Sometimes a network connection, even old slow LocalTalk is the most
convient thing to use. SCSI has fussy issues it isn't worth sorting out.
Later, it was a Syquest 44Mb
drive. It was nice, but the carts cost so much that I never bought any
more; I just used it as an expensive 44Mb semi-fixed SCSI drive. :-(
Hey, if you need a few Syquest drives or carts ... :-) 
3:24 p.m.
New subject: Scrapping Tektronix 4695 (was Re: Scrapping LA100 & Diablo printers)
Mike Ford skrev:
>At 08:26 PM 10/3/01 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>>Later, it was a Syquest 44Mb
>>drive. It was nice, but the carts cost so much that I never bought any
>>more; I just used it as an expensive 44Mb semi-fixed SCSI drive. :-(
>
>Hey, if you need a few Syquest drives or carts ... :-)
When I bought my 44 MB first Syquest I budgeted for 5
cartridges, and used
it quite a bit, initially for backups, and later on as just a handy
portable scsi boot device. Once I had a bootable CD that kind of fell off,
but recently I bought a EZ230 and a 270 MB drive, and those I expect to put
some usefull things on (small projects like a NETBsd firewall to copy to
internal drives).
I'm playing an MP3 off a 44 MB disk right now, just because I'd taken it home
on the SQ and was curious whether it could keep up with real-time MP3
playback. It does, though barely.
I was happy when I got my first SyQuest (some time this year), but the first
thing I noticed was how excruciatingly slow it was.
Thanks to a stroke of luck at the salvation army, I recently got hold of just
about every kind of SyQuest drive made. At only 20 kr (~2 USD) a piece, I got
hold of a 44 MB (I've already got too many of those), an 88 MB, one 200 MB and
one EZ135. The only ones I miss now would be the 250 MB 5? drive (there was
such a thing, right?) and the EZ270.
Sometimes a network connection, even old slow LocalTalk
is the most
convient thing to use. SCSI has fussy issues it isn't worth sorting out.
Since we haven't got any kind of connection the outside world at the UG, save
for sneakernet, I've come to rely on the SyQuest a lot. It's slow, but at
least it beats diskettes (though not for speed) and hard drives (I used to
carry a 600 MB full-height 5?" SCSI HD back and forth before, but that was
painful!).
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7:30 p.m.
New subject: Scrapping Tektronix 4695 (was Re: Scrapping LA100 & Diablo printers)
On 5 Oct 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
Thanks to a stroke of luck at the salvation army, I
recently got hold of just
There are Salvation Army stores in Sweden??
(Or where ever the hell it is you are from...)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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5 Oct
5 Oct
12:23 a.m.
New subject: Scrapping Tektronix 4695 (was Re: Scrapping LA100 & Diablo printers)
Sellam Ismail skrev:
On 5 Oct 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> Thanks to a stroke of luck at the salvation army,
I recently got hold of
> just
There are Salvation Army stores in Sweden??
Yes, though they go by the name Myrorna (Ants). Why?
(Or where ever the hell it is you are from...)
No, Hell's in Norway.
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4 Oct
4 Oct
2:25 p.m.
New subject: Syquest 44Mb drives/discs (was Re: Scrapping Tektronix 4695)
--- John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com> wrote:
At 08:26 PM 10/3/01 -0700, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I did in 1992, but not now, really. I got it for my girlfriend's
Amiga to use with A-Max - ~50Mb used SCSI disks were >$100 at the
time (shortly thereafter, I was buying DEC RZ22s (50Mb) for $100, then
within a year, RZ23s (100Mb) for the same price - still got 'em; they
never went bad). I think I have two working SQ555s and about 5 carts.
Used to have it in a IBM-XT-style sidecar case. Now they sit on the
shelf. :-P One plan I had for them was if I ever got that SCSI board
for my PDP-8, 44Mb is much more than enough room for OS/8. Almost too
large, in fact.
Thanks for the offer, but no thanks.
-ethan
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Later, it was a Syquest 44Mb
drive. It was nice, but the carts cost so much that I never bought any
more; I just used it as an expensive 44Mb semi-fixed SCSI drive. :-(
Hey, if you need a few Syquest drives or carts ... :-) 
1:55 p.m.
New subject: Scrapping Tektronix 4695 (was Re: Scrapping LA100 & Diablo printers)
Every couple of years, I seem to make a purchase that
does _not_ work
out. This is the one from about 1989. Later, it was a Syquest 44Mb
drive. It was nice, but the carts cost so much that I never bought any
more; I just used it as an expensive 44Mb semi-fixed SCSI drive. :-(
I still have one of the Iomega Beta 44A drives here, as well
as a few cartridges. Not a bad drive. Like your Syquest, it's SCSI
with 5-1/4" carts of 44MB capacity. Actually had it installed in the
5-1/4" bay of my Amiga 4000 for a bit.
Jeff
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