Please excuse the double posting but there is a lace connection because the appeal is on behalf of one of my lace students, and she uses this particular piece of obsolete technology to write up lace notes. At the moment she is using Brenda Paternoster's bookmark pattern and is way past her 50th variation - and that's all on the same size grid so she isn't doing the same variation with thick and thin thread and calling it two. And Brenda will now know who I'm talking about.
Anyway, she has a gadget called a Phillips Video Writer which is a word processor and printer all in one. She is able to save to floppy, but although we haven't tried that yet I suspect that a modern PC isn't going to be able to read the data from said floppy disks. The problem is that this machine was made from 1986 (or there abouts) and discontinued in the 90s, presumably as PCs got cheaper and cheaper. The ink tapes that it uses were discontinued in 2002 (but she didn't know that, and didn't stock up) and she is down to her last one. Each only prints 40 pages, although I suspect if we can find a way to rewind it, it would print through at least one more time, in the same way that typewriter ribbons did. So.............. Does anyone remember these machines and do you know if we can rewind/re-use the ink tapes, or arachne miracle time, does anyone have any tapes for these machines. I think they may have made more than one version of it; the tape she has is labelled NMS 3030/5. Or, finally, does anyone know what 'language' it worked in; is there any chance my PC could read/print from her floppy disks. If someone thinks I could, I'll get her to post me one to try. In hopes Jacquie in Lincolnshire. - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com
