GE Terminet terminal

From: Gene Buckle <geneb_at_deltasoft.com>
Date: Wed Jun 2 09:04:00 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...
>

Yep, the disk was missing. Never saw one. I also used to have a
Centronics 700(?) dot matrix printer that used a small loop of paper tape
for form length control.

g.
Received on Wed Jun 02 2004 - 09:04:00 BST