PDP8 Paper Tape

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Wed Apr 7 07:26:05 1999

> > boxes of paper tapes labeled "262.1-S PDP-8 Printer Driver Source",
> > "265.1-OB PDP-8 printer Diagnostic Object 1 of 3", and the other 2 boxes. I
> > have no idea what printer this might be used with. It came with the PDP-8L I
>
> I myself cannot tell what printer those work with from the numeric portion of
> the title, but I can say that just for parallel printers, OMNIBUS -8's
> supported
> the LA180, the LQP01 and LQP02. Common serial printers were the older members

You forget LE8, LP14, lp25 series of line printers. PDP-8s were used with
large and faster line printers of the day. Also the LA30 DECwriter was a
parallel interface at 30cps.

THey were far from limited to ASR33s (LT33).

Allison
Received on Wed Apr 07 1999 - 07:26:05 BST