[vcf-midatlantic] Greenbar print

[jsalzman at gmail.com]

If the warehouse has a Commodore DMP-1101, that's a daisywheel, wide
carriage printer, too. I have a working one of those myself, but I have no
green bar paper to use in it. :(

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 9:01 PM Jameel Akari via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> I also got mine working. The foam that keeps the print head flex cables
> from binding turned to goo along with all the sound absorbing foam. This
> was making the print head stick on the leftward pass and the stepper
> controller detected the jam and shut down. I am impressed.
>
> I’m crudely re-inking the ribbon now. It’ll have to soak overnight but I
> think it’ll come together tomorrow morning.
>
> I think I mentioned the DECwriter serial since I know at least some had
> RS232. The number of dongles needed to interface that from your laptop is
> ever increasing these days.  Might as well have USB-C to current loop at
> this point! :)
>
> --
> Jameel Akari
>
> > On Feb 27, 2021, at 7:23 PM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >>
>
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