[vcf-midatlantic] Greenbar print

[Andrew Diller]

Anyone want to talk on discord about this? Who is actually doing it?

I'm at InfoAge and we have greenbar, if needed I'll find a widecarrige printer and see if I can get it to print from a PC.

Let me know if you are actually doing the print-out.

-andy

> On Feb 27, 2021, at 9:45 AM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>>> 
>>