From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] Daisy wheel printers (was: [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:08:44 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2011100851280.48674@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201109043619.GO99027@eureka.lemis.com>
On Mon, 9 Nov 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> The Qume printers seemed to have been the best round 1980 when we used
> them in our applications. In particular, a large choice of wheels and
> fine-grained spacing. I forget how the spacing worked.
Presumably some sort of a table lookup, based on which character is about
to be hit? Or are you referring to the micro-spacing itself?
> The golfball console for the /360 was much earlier than that, like the
> /360 itself. The model numbers I recall were 735, and the newer
> generation 2731/2735. The last digit related to the carriage width
> (11"/15").
I once had a fine collection of goofballs (as we called them); sadly lost
in a house move :-(
> Round the time in question I bought a second-hand 735 machine. It had
> an arcane interface that directly talked to the magnets. I built an
> interface for it to a parallel port [...]
I'd like to know a bit more about that interface... You'd have to control
the carriage, roller, swivel/tilt/hit etc. How did you detect the BREAK
key to get the 360's attention and unlock the keyboard?
-- Dave
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