Re: Remember Data Printer Corp?

2016-10-12 Thread Richard Loken
The offer of DPC manuals led to many happy reminscenses but only one request for the manuals (with a promise to scan them). Are there scans of these manuals available on-line? -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University

RE: Remember Data Printer Corp?

2016-10-12 Thread Rich Alderson
From: Paul Koning Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 7:09 AM > Speaking of printer widths, the Dutch computer company Electrologica was > odd in that their systems came with line printers that were 144 columns > wide. I've never seen that anywhere else. The IBM 1443 printer, originally part of

Re: Remember Data Printer Corp?

2016-10-12 Thread Paul Koning
> On Oct 12, 2016, at 3:29 AM, jim stephens wrote: > > I had a 133 column line printer, and an 80 column Data Printer, Data products > interfaces. Both drums. They could both move 3 x 5 cards at 1+ lines / > min when printing < 20 columns. They were variable speed,

Re: Remember Data Printer Corp?

2016-10-12 Thread jim stephens
I had a 133 column line printer, and an 80 column Data Printer, Data products interfaces. Both drums. They could both move 3 x 5 cards at 1+ lines / min when printing < 20 columns. They were variable speed, so when something fired on the first 20 columns, such as for addressing, the

Remember Data Printer Corp?

2016-10-11 Thread Richard Loken
While falling over Sun and DEC manuals I also found a complete set of manuals for a great and massive Data Printer Corporation line printer in four volumes: Data Printer Corp Chaintrain Line Printer Models CT-4964 CT-6644 CT-7484 parts and diagrams operating maintenance