On Feb 28, 16:04, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
> Once upon a time....
>
> There were a bunch of these in the early hobby channel,
> say, around 1981... the seller had complete instructions
> for interfacing them, and included some rudimentary code
> for using overstrikes to simulate characters bot available
> in its 5-level (Murray?) coding scheme.
>
> They were going for $150 at the time, and I still could
> kick myself for not grabbing one, they looked pretty cool.
>
> Anyone got a garage full of them?
Nope, my first printer was a 7B -- about 1981 -- but it's long since gone.
It cost me a lot less than $150! I'm sure I've mentioned before how I
wrote a driver for a Sorcerer for it, and how I changed the positions of
some of the type slugs to make overstrikes easier.
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 16:59:38 GMT