Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-11 Thread Doug Ingraham via cctalk
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jon > Elson via cctalk > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 11:02 AM > To: Adrian Graham; gene...@ezwind.net; discuss...@ezwind.net:On-Topic and > Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer? > > &g

RE: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-10 Thread Electronics Plus via cctalk
To: Adrian Graham; gene...@ezwind.net; discuss...@ezwind.net:On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer? >> On 10/08/2017 10:19 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: >>>> Did DEC make any sort of impact printer, besides dot-matrix printers? I >&g

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-10 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 10/08/2017 10:19 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: Did DEC make any sort of impact printer, besides dot-matrix printers? I have an LA50 or two, and dot-matrix isn’t what I’m after. DEC sold a number of printers of varying speeds. I think they may all have been drum printers, but there

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-10 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk
On 10/10/2017 07:50, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: Did DEC make any sort of impact printer, besides dot-matrix printers? I have an LA50 or two, and dot-matrix isn’t what I’m after. They sold some drum,

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-10 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Did DEC make any sort of impact printer, besides dot-matrix printers? I > have an LA50 or two, and dot-matrix isn’t what I’m after. > They sold some drum, chain, and band printers, but I think they were all

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-10 Thread Adrian Graham via cctalk
> On 8 Oct 2017, at 19:00, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > > On 10/08/2017 12:31 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: >> On 10/08/2017 10:19 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: >>> Did DEC make any sort of impact printer, besides dot-matrix printers? I >>> have an LA50 or two,

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-10 Thread allison via cctalk
On 10/08/2017 01:19 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: > Did DEC make any sort of impact printer, besides dot-matrix printers? I have > an LA50 or two, and dot-matrix isn’t what I’m after. > > Zane > > LQP 01 and the 02 as well, Diablo daisy wheel... Then there the LP 25,26,27 band printers. So

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-09 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Oct 9, 2017, at 7:33 AM, Jules Richardson via cctalk > wrote: > > On 10/08/2017 12:27 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: >> My brain is telling me LQP02 so yes, a daisywheel. I’ve not seen one for >> 30 years or so though. > > I think the last time I saw one would

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-09 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
On 10/08/2017 12:27 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote: My brain is telling me LQP02 so yes, a daisywheel. I’ve not seen one for 30 years or so though. I think the last time I saw one would have been around 25 years ago, when I threw mine away :-( It took up too much space for the interest

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-08 Thread Rod Smallwood via cctalk
LQP02 On 08/10/2017 18:19, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: Did DEC make any sort of impact printer, besides dot-matrix printers? I have an LA50 or two, and dot-matrix isn’t what I’m after. Zane -- Wanted one pdp-8/i rocker switch leaver to copy.

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-08 Thread william degnan via cctalk
> > I'm sure DEC did NOT make the actual wheel motor assembly. Qume and Diablo were the two biggies in that arena. > > Probably because of patents and copyrights, you couldn't just make compatible daisy wheel font wheels, either. > > > > Jon > I had once a dec - branded OEM Diablo, I still have

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-08 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Oct 8, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk > wrote: > > On 10/08/2017 12:31 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: >> On 10/08/2017 10:19 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: >>> Did DEC make any sort of impact printer, besides dot-matrix printers? I >>> have an LA50

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-08 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 10/08/2017 12:31 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 10/08/2017 10:19 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: Did DEC make any sort of impact printer, besides dot-matrix printers? I have an LA50 or two, and dot-matrix isn’t what I’m after. You mean like the LQP03 or LQP45? I don't know if DEC

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-08 Thread Ed via cctalk
Yea... so DEC sold them... but the mech was oem diablio? In a message dated 10/8/2017 10:51:39 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: our printers -- daisywheel type -- on wps-8system had a diablio mech as I remember... Ed# _www.smec.org_

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-08 Thread Ed via cctalk
our printers -- daisywheel type -- on wps-8 system had a diablio mech as I remember... Ed# _www.smec.org_ (http://www.smec.org) In a message dated 10/8/2017 10:35:55 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: > On Oct 8, 2017, at 10:31 AM, Chuck Guzis via

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-08 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Oct 8, 2017, at 10:31 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > On 10/08/2017 10:19 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: >> Did DEC make any sort of impact printer, besides dot-matrix printers? I >> have an LA50 or two, and dot-matrix isn’t what I’m after. > > You mean

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-08 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 10/08/2017 10:19 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: > Did DEC make any sort of impact printer, besides dot-matrix printers? I have > an LA50 or two, and dot-matrix isn’t what I’m after. You mean like the LQP03 or LQP45? I don't know if DEC made the basic mechanism, however. --Chuck

Re: Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-08 Thread Adrian Graham via cctalk
> On 8 Oct 2017, at 18:19, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: > > Did DEC make any sort of impact printer, besides dot-matrix printers? I have > an LA50 or two, and dot-matrix isn’t what I’m after. My brain is telling me LQP02 so yes, a daisywheel. I’ve not seen one for 30

Did DEC make a Daisy Wheel printer?

2017-10-08 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
Did DEC make any sort of impact printer, besides dot-matrix printers? I have an LA50 or two, and dot-matrix isn’t what I’m after. Zane