> On Jun 16, 2015, at 12:46 , tony duell <a...@p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote: > For something even madder, look at the design of the original Radio Shack > 'Line Printer' which was > actually a Centronics something-pr-other (733?). This thing (which is not a > line printer at all) has a belt > running across the chassis with a motor continuously driving it (a shaded > pole motor I think). Solenoids > on the printhead carriage grab the top or bottom run of the belt depending on > which way the carriage > is to move.
Is that the same screwball printer that has a metal platen spinning behind the paper with horizontal raised lines on it, and a single vertical striker in the printhead that strikes at the moment when the platen and striker intersect at the desired X/Y location of the dot to be printed? I've considered buying one just to hear what it sounds like. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <n...@nf6x.net> http://www.nf6x.net/
