GE Terminet terminal

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue Jun 1 17:44:50 2004

> I had one of those when I was in high school. It was a Terminet 300 and
> didn't have any keyboard attached to it. Right after I got it (in trade
> for a wrecked R/C helicopter of all things), I loaned it to a friend that
> discovered the hard way that Form Feed _really_ meant Feed All 2500 Sheets
> of Paper Out of The Box And On To The Floor. He wasn't amused. :)

There was a little cardboard disk at the rear left side, belt-driven from
the platten. Notches in the edge of the disk (and, IIRC, the belt ratio)
determined the form length. I guess if this was malfunctioning, or the
disk was missing, or... then it would feed the entire box of paper...


-tony
Received on Tue Jun 01 2004 - 17:44:50 BST