On Sunday 15 June 2008, Ric Moore wrote: >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 they are $25 an old box, and $14 and change in 10 packs, aka something in the $150 range for a box of ribbons. Youch! >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 CoCo's have always had lowercase, just didn't show it. I'm logged into mine with minicom right now. :-) Working on mouse drivers, somebodies update broke them. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Jayne: "That there? Exactly the kind of diversion we could have used." --Episode #4, "Shindig" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
