On 06/24/2015 07:40 PM, ste...@malikoff.com wrote:
I recall the ink was thicker and more oily than modern inkjet ink,
sort of like what a stamp pad has.
Yup, about five years ago, I gave away mine on the Vintage Computer
forum. It had very little mileage on it, mostly because of the mess.
Th
would not be difficult to build a workalike device from Lego or a junked
> Microwave oven turntable motor.
>
> Steve.
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Date:Thu, June 25, 2015 7:13 am
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Subject: Printer ribbons [Was: Re: 1990 Era computer room]
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:14:00PM -0700, j
On 6/24/2015 9:50 AM, wulfman wrote:
ahh the memorys i worked at dataproducts from late 1978 to late 1980
they were awesome printers the B series used the 2900 series bit slice
building blocks
they were speed daemons for their time
its too bad that manufacturing in the USA has dropped becau
On 6/24/2015 9:33 AM, J. David Bryan wrote:
On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 22:14, jwsmobile wrote:
Also I don't recall the Data Products ever scaling as fast by
restricting columns. At least our 2230, 2260 and 2290 UC only and 96
character set printers didn't. Got the same speed regardless of
ahh the memorys i worked at dataproducts from late 1978 to late 1980
they were awesome printers the B series used the 2900 series bit slice
building blocks
they were speed daemons for their time
its too bad that manufacturing in the USA has dropped because of cheap
Chinese
we may still have gr
On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 22:14, jwsmobile wrote:
> Also I don't recall the Data Products ever scaling as fast by
> restricting columns. At least our 2230, 2260 and 2290 UC only and 96
> character set printers didn't. Got the same speed regardless of the
> columns on those Data Products print
If anybody has one I am interested in a Data Products 2310 if that is the
same as the DEC LP01. It should be an 80 column zone printer, and I might
take a relabeled one. The pedestal one is preferred but a table top would
be OK.
Thanks, Paul
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:06 PM, J. David Bryan wrote:
you re ink the old ribbon... used to do that with tty ribbons the
14 inch line printer width.. messy but doable
I remember having to make a dried ribbon a bit juicer one time strung
it between to poles in the parkinlot and sprayed I think it was a litte
wd-40 o
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:14:00PM -0700, jwsmobile wrote:
> The only reference I could find that separated them are to google
> for the printer ribbons. I find a lot of the companies who list
> ribbons don't purge their databases of even the most ridiculously
> old products, and they list models.
the only one that did the hi speed reduced cols was that table top
80 col one for dataproduicts that I know of. our larger ones did not.
by the way that small dataproducts also had a floor pedestal that made
it a tall tower and you could open door for paper box...
On 6/23/2015 9:39 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 03:42:54PM -0700, jwsmobile wrote:
II do have an 80 column Dataprinter that looks like the one in the photo,
not a Data Products.
There were two different companies, Data Printer and DataProducts.
Confused everyone even at the
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 03:42:54PM -0700, jwsmobile wrote:
> II do have an 80 column Dataprinter that looks like the one in the photo,
> not a Data Products.
There were two different companies, Data Printer and DataProducts.
Confused everyone even at the time IIRC.
mcl
On 6/23/2015 12:50 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote:
hp drives yes...
data printer no... correct name is data products
and a neat printer if you were just printing the first 20 col zone
I remember something about this model banging it out at 800 or 1000 lpm
II do have an 80 column Dat
On 2015-Jun-23, at 2:28 PM, william degnan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
>> On 2015-Jun-23, at 12:50 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote:
>>> hp drives yes...
>>> ...
>>>
>>> OK another odd thing - note tapes but lack of tape drives.
>>>
>>> If only we could see
It could be a bunch of terminal multiplexers or communications controllers,
does not even have to be CPU's...
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
> On 2015-Jun-23, at 12:50 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote:
> > hp drives yes...
> > ...
> >
> > OK another odd thing - note tapes bu
Yes I noticed the rarther fancy panels with the edgewise meters.
I'm begining to wonder if they might be for monitoring private comms
circuits.
Sort of a comms test box.
The meters would be right for signal to noise and the row of buttons at
the bottom for channel to monitor selection.
On 23/
On 2015-Jun-23, at 12:50 PM, couryho...@aol.com wrote:
> hp drives yes...
> ...
>
> OK another odd thing - note tapes but lack of tape drives.
>
> If only we could see what was in the rest of the room!
I think those are all disk cartridges, rather than tapes.
I was trying to guess what
On 06/22/2015 11:43 PM, Christian Kennedy wrote:
I think the hint is on the back. This is a story of Delaine Donohue
retiring from D&B where he created and ran the National Business
Information Center and the Central Data Collection Group between the
early 70s and early 80s. He retired in ’89,
hp drives yes...
data printer no... correct name is data products
and a neat printer if you were just printing the first 20 col zone
I remember something about this model banging it out at 800 or 1000
lpm
at full 80 col it was 300 LPM
( This was the first formal sale o
On Monday, June 22, 2015 at 15:39, Jay West wrote:
> The disc drives appear to be HP 7900A drives.
I agree. A few pictures for comparison here:
http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=275
The printers appear to be Data Products 2310 drum printers, also sold as
the HP 2767A; photos:
h
On 06/22/2015 09:43 PM, Christian Kennedy wrote:
I think the hint is on the back. This is a story of Delaine Donohue
retiring from D&B where he created and ran the National Business
Information Center and the Central Data Collection Group between the
early 70s and early 80s. He retired in ’89,
You're sure this is a picture from 1990? Looks older.
On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Rod Smallwood <
rodsmallwoo...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> It looks like three dual systems with processors sharing common storage.
> Tandem? or other robust ysytem
>
> Rod
>
>
> On 22/06/2015 21:39, Jay West w
> On 22 Jun 2015, at 19:14, Jon Elson wrote:
>
> Also, it is clearly NOT 1990 era, probably much closer to mid-1970's. The
> cartridge disk drives look a little like double-decker Diablos, with the
> packs in racks on top of the cabinets. The CPUs remind me of TI machines,
> but these would
On 06/22/2015 04:19 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
It looks like three dual systems with processors sharing
common storage.
Tandem? or other robust ysytem
That AIN'T tandem, I'm sure. A couple good friends worked
for Tandem from very near the beginning, so I know what a
Non-stop I looks like. H
The drives appear similar to those on the HP 3000. Could it be an OEM process
control version?
http://www.hpmuseum.net/images/3000_1972-35.jpg
Steve.
Original Message
Subject: RE: 1990 Era computer room
From:"Jay West"
Da
On 2015-Jun-22, at 2:19 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> On 22/06/2015 21:39, Jay West wrote:
>> On 2015-Jun-22, at 9:16 AM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
>> I saw this newpaper photo on ebay, item 191606970872, where these 2 big wigs
>> are proudly standing in front of their computer system looking over some
It looks like three dual systems with processors sharing common storage.
Tandem? or other robust ysytem
Rod
On 22/06/2015 21:39, Jay West wrote:
I saw this newpaper photo on ebay, item 191606970872, where these 2 big wigs
are proudly standing in front of their computer system looking ov
On 6/22/2015 9:16 AM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
I saw this newpaper photo on ebay, item 191606970872, where these 2
big wigs are proudly standing in front of their computer system
looking over some printout.
The actual computers in the picture don't look familiar to me, can
anyone ID them?
Do
I saw this newpaper photo on ebay, item 191606970872, where these 2 big wigs
are proudly standing in front of their computer system looking over some
printout.
The actual computers in the picture don't look familiar to me, can anyone ID
them?
The disc drives appear to be HP 7900A driv
I saw this newpaper photo on ebay, item 191606970872, where these 2 big
wigs are proudly standing in front of their computer system looking over
some printout.
The actual computers in the picture don't look familiar to me, can
anyone ID them?
Doug
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