On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:11 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, Tony Duell wrote: > > Of course toner cartridges for these printers are getting almost > > impossible to find now. And I don't think any later Laserjets had a > > 'VDO' interface option. > > Does that mean that if I can dig them out, that somebody would like the > used CX cartridges that I had accumulated?
They are worth keeping as they can be refilled and are the only way (that I know of) to keep an original-ish PERQ printer going. Refilling them is 'interesting', one day I must (re)tell the story of the Toner and the Toilet. Incidentally, in the UK, ICL offered some standard-ish RS232-interfaced dot matrix printers for the PERQ. And an GPIB-interfaced Versatec V80 electrostatic printer. The latter is another interesting machine (but I am pretty sure Bob didn't have one). > I also probably still have some LaserJet font cartridges. Which of course are not used with the CX-VDO model (the font cartridges connect to the formatter board) > > > At the college, we had a LaserJet II (SX) connected to a JLaser board. > There might be some differences between the CX and SX VDO interface, but > they seemed to use the same software. There was a serial command line (host to printer), which the PERQ didn't use, for things like selecting the single sheet feeder. I think the SX version added some more commands here, but as I said the PERQ didn't use that at all. -tony
