Re: Any Interpress fans out there?

[Paul McJones via cctalk]

> On Apr 1, 2021, at 10:00 AM,Al Kossow  > wrote:
> 
> 
> Interpress had nothing to do with the Alto
> 
> Talk to Paul McJones re. Interpress translation

I included Press-to-{PostScript,PDF} conversion in the program that generated 
http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org, but I don’t have any code for Interpress.

Re: Any Interpress fans out there?

[Noel Chiappa via cctalk]

> From: Al Kossow

> Dover was not an Interpress printer

Yeah, it used Press format. BTW, here:

  http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/s2/press.c

is the program from our V6 Unix machine to produce PRESS format files for the
MIT Dover. (.v was the format for the Varian printer, a poor man's XGP, but
which had finer resolution; our copy of troff had been hacked to produce .v
format output.)

Noel

RE: Any Interpress fans out there?

[D. Resor via cctalk]

I did not say it was  The Dover was a SLOT (Scanned Laser Output Terminal) 
using the EARS protocol (Ethernet, Alto, Research character generator, Scanned 
laser output terminal).

The Dover Laser Printer however was used with the Xerox Alto.

Was the 9700 the first Xerox Interpress Laser printer, I don't know.

Don Resor








-Original Message-
From: cctalk  On Behalf Of Al Kossow via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 10:53 PM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Any Interpress fans out there?

On 3/31/21 10:37 PM, John Q Clueless via cctalk wrote:
> Here is the Dover

Dover was not an Interpress printer

Re: Any Interpress fans out there?

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

On 3/31/21 10:37 PM, John Q Clueless via cctalk wrote:

Here is the Dover


Dover was not an Interpress printer

RE: Any Interpress fans out there?

[D. Resor via cctalk]

Here is the Dover

https://techonomy.com/2013/04/next-trick-for-laser-printers-building-electronic-devices/

A few more images here:

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/input-output/14/351/1657

Where Marc might find room for one of these monstrosities I don't know.  I 
believe it's the same physical dimensions as a Xerox 2400?

https://xeroxnostalgia.com/category/2400/

Don Resor
N6KAW

-Original Message-
From: cctalk  On Behalf Of D. Resor via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 10:28 PM
To: 'Tony Aiuto' ; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and 
Off-Topic Posts' 
Subject: RE: Any Interpress fans out there?

In a quick search I found this...  

PostScript and Interpress: a comparison 

http://www.mostlycolor.ch/2010/07/postscript-and-interpress-comparison.html

Seems the first printer was referred to "Dover"?

Don Resor
N6KAW

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From: cctalk  On Behalf Of Tony Aiuto via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 10:18 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts 
Subject: Any Interpress fans out there?

I'm in the middle of imaging a set of  5 1/4" diskettes from 1988 containing 
the Interpress conformance test suite.
My plan is to
- convert the MS-DOS backup format images to files (trivial)
- find interpress to postscript converter to print the files.
- compare them to the reference pictures to verify I got them all.

The third part is the hard one. I believe there was a document to go along with 
the images, so you could verify they printed as expected. I don't think I have 
that any more.  I'm looking for pointers to an online copy. My search has come 
up empty.

Of course, the alternative is if someone has an interpress printer. We could 
just print them.  Perhaps Curious Marc has one alongside the Alto?

RE: Any Interpress fans out there?

[D. Resor via cctalk]

In a quick search I found this...  

PostScript and Interpress: a comparison 

http://www.mostlycolor.ch/2010/07/postscript-and-interpress-comparison.html

Seems the first printer was referred to "Dover"?

Don Resor
N6KAW

-Original Message-
From: cctalk  On Behalf Of Tony Aiuto via cctalk
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 10:18 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts 
Subject: Any Interpress fans out there?

I'm in the middle of imaging a set of  5 1/4" diskettes from 1988 containing 
the Interpress conformance test suite.
My plan is to
- convert the MS-DOS backup format images to files (trivial)
- find interpress to postscript converter to print the files.
- compare them to the reference pictures to verify I got them all.

The third part is the hard one. I believe there was a document to go along with 
the images, so you could verify they printed as expected. I don't think I have 
that any more.  I'm looking for pointers to an online copy. My search has come 
up empty.

Of course, the alternative is if someone has an interpress printer. We could 
just print them.  Perhaps Curious Marc has one alongside the Alto?

Re: Any Interpress fans out there?

[Al Kossow via cctalk]

On 3/31/21 10:18 PM, Tony Aiuto via cctalk wrote:

I'm in the middle of imaging a set of  5 1/4" diskettes from 1988
containing the Interpress conformance test suite.
My plan is to
- convert the MS-DOS backup format images to files (trivial)
- find interpress to postscript converter to print the files.
- compare them to the reference pictures to verify I got them all.

The third part is the hard one. I believe there was a document to go along
with the images, so you could verify they printed as expected. I don't
think I have that any more.  I'm looking for pointers to an online copy. My
search has come up empty.

Of course, the alternative is if someone has an interpress printer. We
could just print them.  Perhaps Curious Marc has one alongside the Alto?



Interpress had nothing to do with the Alto

Talk to Paul McJones re. Interpress translation