[vcf-midatlantic] Greenbar print

[Bill Degnan]

They want a printout only?  Not a printer too, right?
Bill

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021, 9:34 AM Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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
> >>
>