From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 00fc30a4 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 20:03:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B409D9E2C9; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 06:03:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53259E27F; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 06:03:34 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id D1CA89E27F; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 06:03:31 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 22654 seconds by postgrey-1.35 at minnie.tuhs.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 06:03:31 AEST Received: from neener.bl.org (neener.bl.org [50.116.26.109]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0759E27E for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2018 06:03:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from neener.bl.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by neener.bl.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id w79DjtWm016009 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 08:45:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (mparson@localhost) by neener.bl.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id w79DjtLw004067 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 08:45:55 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: neener.bl.org: mparson owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 08:45:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Michael Parson To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20180808123229.86FD5E465F@mailuser.nyi.internal> <6EBCF9E5-4600-42D6-9F83-3E2966140540@donhopkins.com> <20180808135106.D7441E4636@mailuser.nyi.internal> <5B6B2A78.7070303@texoma.net> <201808090514.w795ESAh018689@freefriends.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (NEB 67 2015-01-07) X-Marks-The-Spot: --->X MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (neener.bl.org [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 09 Aug 2018 08:45:57 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: [TUHS] the distinct smell of light machine oil, was Re: TUHS Digest, Vol 33, Issue 7 X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Thu, 9 Aug 2018, Warner Losh wrote: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 11:56 PM Jim Geist wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:14 PM 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