On Fri, 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?
Now that I have interested people with possible printers, I will share the file and you can figure it out. I don't really know the details other than she wants 10 pages printed out and 5 sets of those 10 pages. Here is the text file: Colossus249.txt <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fC6xmm6MgXjP87DL3JIeAT_cYQotPKkZ/view?usp=drive_web> Here it is as a zip: Colossus 249.zip <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1615Ui7zevANVRqcXRYFB0NS-AfBIrjmi/view?usp=drive_web>
I recall you said it was roughly a hundred or so total pages?
10 pages from the text file, and 5 sets of those. A total of 50 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
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.
When the file and details are available I would be happy to at least try to do of it too.
Bill