[vcf-midatlantic] Greenbar print

[Dean Notarnicola]

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 at 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 at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 1:58 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <
> > vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On February 27, 2021 1:05:19 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic <
> >> vcf-midatlantic at 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
>
>