Proprinter lives! Just need to see if I can reliably get tractor feed through it And reconstitute the ribbon On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 6:17 PM Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Connecting printers isn't the hard part. The hard part is getting the files from the Internet to the machine you managed to connect to the printer :)
Bill's idea of the Decwriter and using a serial printer (rather than parallel) was a great idea, of course I came up without my whole bag and so I had no USB-C -> USB-> Serial adapter in order to print from the Mac right to the DW. I'll test this out next week as it sounds like a good thing to be able to do in a pinch.
-andy
On Feb 27, 2021, at 2:02 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 1:58 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On February 27, 2021 1:05:19 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Maybe someone near the museum can look for the two DECwriter III's that might still be around the warehouse, or some other wide carriage printer there. If you put a new ribbon on one of those and attach to an old pc running word perfect paginated to 132 character lines you could at least try to print this at infoage. I bet there is some green bar in the warehouse
Unfortunately there isn't anyone near the museum who has the technical knowledge to do this. We certainly have the paper and the machines, but not the technical knowledge to setup, troubleshoot and print it.
Huh?? Jeff, I'm willing to bet that pretty much everyone here has been connecting printers to computers for decades. This is not hard!
There are only a handful of people near InfoAge me (7 minutes away, Tony 17 minutes away, Corey 35 minutes away). I can tell you that my knowledge of connecting greenbar printers is nil. Don't know about Tony or Corey. We don't know what kind of printers are in the warehouse. We don't know the condition of those printers. We don't know which computers that they hook up to. We don't know if those computers are working. So therefore there is little chance that we have the knowledge of someone close by, a good known and working printer and how to connect, etc.
If this was next weekend, then we would have 10 to 15 people from 1 hour plus driving distance and *they* would certainly be able to figure out, troubleshoot, connect, etc.
== Jeff
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA