On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 00:19 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 14 June 2008, Ric Moore wrote: > >Whoops! You ferget the NEC Spinwriter at 50 cps! It was smart and tabbed > >over spaces to do it. Diablo's (I've had several) needed software > >drivers to do the same thing. I wish I still had mine. <sighs> Ric > > > Ahh Ric, but the Spinwriter was not IIRC a real daisy, it was more like an > overgrown thimble that IIRC had more then one char per leaf, so it moved in 2 > directions to put the right character under the hammer. It spun, and moved up > and down but it didn't have to move near as far as the daisy wheel did to put > the right char under the hammer. > > Diablo's by now, have a platen roller that is as hard as glass, this in spite > of, or perhaps because of, repeated applications of rubber renu, so their much > vaunted quality of the finished product hasn't been like new in 30 years. I used rubbing alcohol liberally to "soften it up". > But I still own it till the next time it gets in my way out in the storage shed. > Then it goes onto a 2 wheeler, and to the curb. It was nice, very nice, for as > long as it lasted, about 15 years of fairly steady use here. I probably ran 30 > cartons of std tractor feed through it myself. Remember when you could by a carton of paper for $15? Ribbons for $4? Now my damn printer uses 25 cents worth of ink when you turn it on and it prints a damn test page. I miss the look of a good carbon ribbon's output, too. It looked "raised" and very professional. Ah, they were gentler times. I could type on the 5525 SpinWriter's keyboard and through the full duplex serial connection to my Apple][, I got lower case!! Ha! Ric -- ---------------------------------------------------- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar https://oar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ----------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
