DECdatasystems

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Tue Mar 5 16:59:35 2002

At 02:23 PM 3/5/02 -0800, you wrote:
>
>--- John Chris Wren <jcwren_at_jcwren.com> wrote:
>> This sounds like a machine I used to work on. PDP-8/a, two floppy
>> drives, a VT-50 terminal that looked like it could have been provisioned
>> for an internal thermal printer, and ours had a LA-36.
>
>Yep... they sold a bunch of them. The printer inside the VT-50 case
>wasn't thermal, BTW. The "1976-1977 pdp-8/a minicomputer handbook" calls
>it an "electrolytic copier" under the entry for the VT-61. My memory of
>working with them was that they used funky paper and there was a wet
>wiper brush that moistened the paper as it exited the printer. Perhaps
>it squeegeed it. I don't recall any more.
>

That sounds like a Versatec printer, which used an electrostatic process
to attach the carbon suspended in the liquid toner...

--tom
Received on Tue Mar 05 2002 - 16:59:35 GMT