On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 9:46 AM Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
They want a printout only? Not a printer too, right?
Just a printout. They will use it as prop.
Bill
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 9:34 AM Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was thinking the same - NLQ might be good enough, assuming the thing still works at all. An OfficeMax store-closing liquidation fated me a full case of greenbar.
-- Jameel Akari
On Feb 27, 2021, at 9:19 AM, Dean Notarnicola <dnotarnicola@gmail.com> wrote:
I was guessing that they would want wide carriage and impact printing, depending on the time period. I got my proprinter xl out of mothballs as well (the NLQ mode may be sufficient) , but the bigger challenge is finding greenbar on short notice.
On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 9:14 AM Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I will dust off my Proprinter XL and work on it too if the details include “dot-matrix is ok.”
From the context I’m guessing they’re really looking for that band/chain printer look that a 1980s DMP doesn’t have.
-- Jameel Akari
On Feb 26, 2021, at 11:28 PM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Can you please send technical details of the printout? Ascii file? Characters per line? Is the printout file ready and all they need is a print or does thenoutput need to be formatted first?
I recall you said it was roughly a hundred or so total pages?
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
When the file and details are available I would be happy to at least try to do of it too.
Bill