No chance...not enough space left on the website!
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- Original Message -
From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Rogue page
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 at 09:13:07, Dilwyn Jones wrote
go!
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- Original Message -
From: Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Rogue page
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 at 10:45:27, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
No chance...not enough
Norman Dunbar...I must have a picture of him somewhere in the
QL Today archives!
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etc), trader contact details and so on.
We're friendly here - don't hesitate to ask questions!
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remove the boy scout picture as one
person on this list called it.
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one (Digital Precision Copy-Protection or
Lenslok in action I think)
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- Original Message -
From: Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Rogue page
On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 11:10:02 +0100
was at least as old as my (ancient) PC.
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- Original Message -
From: John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: QL - Users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:40 PM
Subject: [ql-users] Rogues Gallery
Dilwyn
I have sent some pics via snail mail.
An improved
...patience!
Fear grips the QL community...an evil person is on the loose...whose
picture will appear on the Rogues Gallery next :-)
(OK, at least it stirred up some discussion and created a little bit
of fun!)
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I sent him that one, Phoebus, he had to rework it a bit to get it
working on Q40. It had to be emailed to him at the time as he did not
have full internet access to download it.
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I recompiled elvis and got it allmost working on my Q40.
I go forward now to port VIM
(hopefully temporary) insanity...
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Aurora and QPC.
(If Bernd Reinhardt is reading this: HELP!)
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- Original Message -
From: Michael Grunditz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 8:25 AM
Subject: [ql-users] sernet
Hi
I cant use sernet between my q40 and qpc2. Iget sernet
then.
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- Original Message -
From: Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] sernet
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 07:25:34 +, Michael Grunditz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi
I cant use sernet between
memory card or something with you so we can
test it again! Of course, if I could get SERNET working between the PC
and Aurora I should be able to print from the Aurora via the PC I
suppose, a better solution than separate cables to one printer.
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From
, faultlessly and quickly
becomes one of those things you could never have managed without it.
When I get time I'll go back to the Aurora system to try that out
again.
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- Original Message -
From: Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 8:40 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] sernet
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:23:38 +0100, Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've been able to get it to work between
I was sure I had none left - this is what comes of living in 3
different
places during the week :-))
Ah...that's what you meant by hot-swappable!
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programs (e.g.
Quill, Xchange, some of my older programs).
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
You can have more than one par port too, never tried it but I
wonder
if they could be tied to different printers...print to PAR1, PAR2
etc?
Of course. Otherwise, what would be the point of multiple ports?
Marcel
Well, I was thinking more in terms of how many programs
set or whatever is only a start, you'll still need to tinker with
printer drivers etc, but then, that's half the fun of QLing isn't it!
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However, what printers are people actually using nowadays
with their
QL??
I stick with the 850 - but am I correct
system involve - can anyone explain this in
terms I'd understand?
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. Anyone any idea what's going on?
Interestingly, the one unaffected program with large-ish files is
QPC2. I wonder if this is because the QXL.WIN is a fixed size Windows
file in a fixed location on the disk, so fairly unaffected by
fragmentation?
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and Marcel, Tony, Jochen, Wolfgang and all with the OS. That's all
we needed to know.
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- Original Message -
From: SMSQ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] QLwIP, Ethernet, USB, Q60 successor
Most Q60
#channel
PRINT #channel,'AT LINE ';ERLIN;':';error_statement
It's probably stored in the basic variables area somewhere, though I
can't seem to find it.
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is formally credited as Copyright (C) Roy Wood
sometime in the last 3 years :o|
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Thank you.
$C8 is described in my book as number of watched WHEN variables
It doesn't matter that it doesn't work on QDOS, it is only for my own
debugging use on QPC2.
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- Original Message -
From: Marcel Kilgus [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ql-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
than rewrite it all on separate lines.
I'm having problems with one of these programs running OK interpreted,
but not when compiled.
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- Original Message -
From: Phoebus R. Dokos ( . ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 5:21 PM
Subject
or released on VHS/DVD.
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at the time.
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- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 5:47 AM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] error lines
On 16 Oct 2003 at 15:52, Marcel Kilgus wrote:
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Well, it wasn't the error tables I wanted
Welsh bands on tour about 10 years ago.
And as for radio, how long have you got???
Dilwyn Jones. Star of stage, screen, radio and flowerbeds. Not.
After reading the above, do you wonder I got fed up of broadcasting
after 20 years with the BBC?
And now, some 5 years after giving it up, it all comes
Now...should that be license or licence??? Can never remember which is
verb, which is noun :o/
Roy would...yes, nice pun.
Err, 1 pound per copy royalty like I used to pay on ptr_gen, wman and
hot_rext ;-))
OK back to my pram to play with my rattle...
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- Original Message
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writing
this up for QL Toady and my QL Documentation CD if I can get some
definitive documentation.
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Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I haven't looked yet, but I suspect the Rich Mellor SuperBASIC
Reference Guide might have insights on this. I can't find any
reference to it in Jan Jnoes's book, though.
Oh, here there is one:
WHEN
used in the non-implemented WHEN construct
;-)
Marcel
E
(How did Dilwyn put it? Ah yes... A brain the size of a planet that
lad!)
Err, I think I was quoting Tony Tebby originally IIRC.
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. Since you are able IIRC to take ordinary GBP payments, why did you
get a Eurocheque for a British order, or did the customer not know?
Can you let me know what forms of payment you can take, as it will be
easier to direct European orders for Launchpad to you, as customers
can pay you in Euros.
Dilwyn
this
first 'public' version so that I can try to include any changes
arising from feedback into the first commercial release version.
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codes are -
probably the 8 job events allowed by SMSQ/E and the
enter/escape/help/move/resize/sleep/wake events (dons flameproof suit
ready for corrections!). I haven't actually explored this at all, in
my programs only event%=0 is used.
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Nicely done, apart from the 3 broken links:
Pictures of Supper, Roberto Orlandi and Eros Forenzi Roberto
Orlandi!
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- Original Message -
From: SMSQ - Jochen Merz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: QL Users [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: [ql-users
I believe I bought my EasyPtr direct from Albin himself. Since hes
no longer
in business, would someone else (Roy, perhaps?) be prepared to
update me?
Per
I didn't get my Easyptr from Roy, but he did update mine.
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saturday night
shift at work so I can travel down saturday afternoon I hope to be
there to demo it in person.
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more aware of the problems they
face in manning (personning?) such helplines.
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for the
display size and colour depth. The Clock is now positioned correctly
after a Move, icon names can be longer than the original 9 characters
if display size permits it, longer command line strings.
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~~
Jim Hunkins JDH Software Technologies
~~
On Nov 1, 2003, at 4:44 AM, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
The trial version of Launchpad 0.91 is on my website now. Hope I
get
the URL right this time!
Details
look forward to being able to compare
products one day when they're both finished!
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Protection Faults even in Launchpad! Hate to think what they do to
browsers! (Ta for finding those John)
Anyone else found any bugs in Launchpad v0.91 I can fix while I'm off
work tuesday! Very much hope to start demonstrating and selling it at
Byfleet this weekend, bugs permitting!
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or not!
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be local to Wales North West (or areas served by
Stanlow) as I haven't seen anything about it in the papers or on the
news. If anyone has any info, please let me know.
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onto this list guys, it was meant to
help me find out if I could make it to the Quanta workshop after all!
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to catch up!
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If anyone has any news or articles for QL Today, we are now (rather
later than hoped) starting to compile the next issue, so please send
in any material as soon as possible to Jochen or myself.
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) picture of
myself which might well go there...watch that space at the bottom of
the page!
I accept that people have a right to see who is responsible for that
dreadful gallery!
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feature of QDOS in a forthcoming QL Today, a useful little
spin-off from subjects discussed almost in passing here!
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Do Not Set for
colour depth and display resolution. Sadly, as John found out,
although it is now better behaved it is rather naughty in that it
doesn't set resolution but tells you it does (i.e. doesn't show Do Not
Set as the option you chose). This will be improved int he next
version.
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option is now default.
I'm glad to say that John, Marcel and others who impressed this on me
have managed to make me see sense at last!
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Its
perhaps the dodgiest passport photo I've EVER seen!!
Must scan it and get it up on the web :-))
Cheers,
Darren.
OH NO
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unbeknown to me and so the correct screen size
details are not returned!
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For anyone using (or trying to use) my _PIC to .BMP graphics file
conversion program in QL Today October 2003 issue (Vol 8 Issue 3),
David Bunbury has kindly written to point out that there is an error
in line 270 of the listing on page 43.
In line 270, the GET #3 statement should fetch a 16
you started this by now you never will be.
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)
(damn! off topic again)
Dilwyn O Gymru
or
Dilwyn Y Cymro
No, I don't think so, Phoebus, leave the 'in Wales' bit to John
Hitchcock.
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need Bill to help out here.
Georgie...I seem to remember something Darren Branagh sent me about a
Geordie version of Windows, or Windaz as I think it referred to it.
Quite funny. Think the smsq/e module could be called Monkey or
something.. :-)
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is entitled to distribute all or only
part of the source code and may also distribute, at his
convenience,
the source code via other media.
The site is set up by me (wearing my regoistrar hat).
NO breach of the licence here.
Wolfgang
Well said, couldn't be clearer!
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was persuaded to
alter the way Launchpad behaves, it makes it that much more flexible
even though it was a bit more of a chore to make it adapt itself to
whatever it found itself running in.
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read CD-ROMs (Yet to find a recorded CD-R which
it will read!), 256 colours max. and so on. Guess it will get used for
very basic applications and that's it!
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- Original Message -
From: Martin Wheatley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003
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(by me) and Page Designer 3 (by Barry Ansell)
spring to mind, no doubt there's more.
The routines I wrote for Image Processor and Graphics Viewer were in
compiled basic, I can probably find the sources for these dumps and
send them to you if you'd like to try to update them.
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Are you using QL or PC format? If I recall correctly, if your
floppy
is PC formatted only, it is Much slower than if you first format it
to
QL.
Jim
QL format.
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and a larger if less used collection onto the new site? (Not
too keen on this new site because of the adverst etc - it is free
space after all). If space permits, I'd be quite happy to add any
useful documentation people might wish to contribute and make freely
available.
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on the CD and try to ensure it's
all appropriately indexed then send it to you sometime in the new year
and see where we go from there.
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disks.
Next step will be to reorganise the main site as there is now some
overlap of material, then update the software downloads site after
that to put much more of the QL PD Library online.
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typposs...;-)
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that email. Darren sends stuff like this from the Bank Of Ireland from
time to time, I sometimes wonder if he does anything there other than
run QPC and compile joke emails ;-)
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the right person...consider
a Freddy (bear?) hug though :-|
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: 19.8 mb per day
- Monthly: 600 mb
TopCities have disabled my QL documentation web page for the month, it
seems the monthly bandwidth got exceeded. I hope this is because of
how much material I uploaded, as it hasn't had that much download use
yet!
Ho hum
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not sure about the north American situation, I shouldn't have
thought it applies here though as surely Frank and Paul only have
rights over the original Sinclair products. Freely distributable.
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Page is viewable, but I can't upload or modify it for the rest of the
month. They only allow a very small bandwidth and volume of traffic to
it.
I have more material to place on the site, but am stuck now until
February.
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- Original Message -
From: François Van Emelen
(Tony Tebby: brain the size of a planet) he got his QL at 4,
mastered SuperBASIC before 5, pure machine code by 6. ;-))
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not remembered
the exact date!)
As it is now 20 years of the QL, let us try to make this a QL year to
remember!
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cable (9-pin D connector) to have a go at the software.
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text list of Epson printer control codes to
match the HPCL (Deskjet) one I once did. I'll post it on my website if
ever I finish it! Older Epson sets aren't bad if you ignore graphics
commands, the ESC/P2 command sets tend to take longer to document and
understand!!!
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- Original
of course.
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Select. ESC! n;
While this would work, it shouldn't be necessary - just sending the SI
code above should be all you need!!!
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on the use of control
codes from QL to printer for the magazines? It's been done before, but
can never have too much information on tricky subjects like this!
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%=timeout to return
MCALLT only works with SMSQ/E from v2.84 or WMAN from v1.52
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always subscribe to
QL Today magazine (plug plug again).
[Geoff Wicks for Quanta chairman or editor if he retires from trading,
now that Robin Barker is stepping down!!!]
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...also QL connection of underdog taking on bigger
brother...Top Up TV vs Sky).
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of the software costs
too.
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Thanks Tony, will add it to the QL Documentation CD ... when I get an
hour or six to download it :-)
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 at 11:46:35, Tony Firshman wrote:
(ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
This is for 'witchy' (I wonder who he is (8-)# ) and Dilwyn
especially.
A zipped pdf
what's on that EPROM now, probably
the Superhermes code or something like that?
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-To-Air I should be able to get it
from the Sky box too (I'm too mean to subscribe to Sky!)
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.
Wow...my PeeZee actually managed to go for a whole 9.34MB download
without crashing once...I'm in shock!
Now to try unzipping it before I get over-confident...
I'll add it to the QL Documentation CD as soon as I get a chance!
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THOR MANUAL
Thanks to Tony Firshman, I have now added the Thor manual PDF file to
the QL Documentation CD, which is now at version 2.7.
The PDF file is about 10MB long, you will of course need the Acrobat
file reader or similar utility to read and print it.
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on, I thought the existing 30 or so TV channels
was the maximum!
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ql-users your_old_email_address
Put your old email address in place of your_old_email_address
obviously.
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 9:51 PM
Subject: [ql-users] ql-users mailing list
ql-users your_old_email_address
Put your old email address in place of your_old_email_address
obviously.
Dilwyn Jones
- Original Message -
From: James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 9:51 PM
Subject: [ql-users] ql-users mailing list
Thanks, will add this to the manual.
I've seen articles about the printer and graphics in old QL magazines,
but decided that it must be an unofficial facility as it wasn't in the
manual. Now I know better.
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- Original Message -
From: Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED
Robert Newson has kindly sent me an update to the Ser8056 thermal
printer manual, which covers the graphics mode it supports. So I have
updated the manuals on my website's QL documentation page.
http://dilwynjones.topcities.com/qldocs/qldocs.html
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face soon lit
up once
the patch had been shown to work.
I think ESC K is a standard 'low-density' graphics code on Epson
printers, assuming the bit image data format is the same. Certainly,
much of the limited code set supported seems the same as early 9-pin
Epson dot matrix printers.
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before the Thor series of
machines? I'm
guessing that they were.
Cheers
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Yes, though I don't have the exact dates they were available.
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/dilwyn.jones/index.html
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