From: Michael Parson <mparson@bl.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 08:45:55 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.20.1808090841340.2796@neener.bl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpmoGXh6rir8xCugCS-y5e6h2JZK7660mpsMJ5gd=A-LQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 9 Aug 2018, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 11:56 PM Jim Geist <velocityboy@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:14 PM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Which was ...?
>
>> You can supposedly revive dried out ribbons by soaking them in WD40. I’ve
>> heard of it but never tried it.
>
> It works. For the ribbon type printers, it gets the ink moving enough to
> get a second or third use from the cart. Print quality was dicey, but for
> listings to do debugging on a dot matrix printer, quality wasn't the name
> of the game. Just don't use too much...
I don't have much experience with hardcopy terminals, but I did use the
WD-40 trick on dot-matrix printers in the 80s (Commodore MPS 803 was my
first printer).
Only time I used a hard-copy term was at my first job at a university
computer lab, our line printer went down, so, I dragged an LA120 out of
storage and hooked it up to serve as the printer until we could get the
line printer serviced.
--
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
KF5LGQ
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2018-08-08 12:10 ` [TUHS] " Don Hopkins
2018-08-08 12:32 ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2018-08-08 12:59 ` Don Hopkins
2018-08-08 13:51 ` Sijmen J. Mulder
2018-08-08 14:45 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-08 14:56 ` Lawrence Stewart
2018-08-08 15:09 ` [TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was " Toby Thain
2018-08-08 17:38 ` Cornelius Keck
2018-08-08 19:14 ` Jim Geist
2018-08-08 20:44 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-09 5:14 ` arnold
2018-08-09 5:55 ` Jim Geist
2018-08-09 6:02 ` George Michaelson
2018-08-09 7:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-08-09 12:36 ` Warner Losh
2018-08-09 13:45 ` Michael Parson [this message]
2018-08-09 13:31 ` Clem Cole
2018-08-09 14:15 ` Derek Fawcus
2018-08-09 14:26 ` Eric Wayte
2018-08-10 11:37 ` Pete Turnbull
2018-08-10 11:37 ` Pete Turnbull
2018-08-10 16:24 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2018-08-10 16:58 ` Pete Turnbull
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