[Info-vax] DECwriter

[Bart.Zorn@gmail.com]

On Nov 28, 7:59 am, Mike Rechtman <m... at rechtman.com> wrote:
> Steven Schweda wrote:
> > John Wallace wrote:
>
> >> Wasn't it the LA120? [...]
>
> >    LA120 is what I remember.  As I recall, ours looked like an
> > LA36 with no keyboard, but moved faster.  I also seem to
> > recall that you were supposed to use official ink-laden
> > ribbons, not carbon-laden (typewriter) ribbons, because the
> > latter would abrade the print-wires in the head.
>
> >    I remember being impressed at the time by the cleverness of
> > printing on the way back.
>
> IIRC the LA120 with no keyboard was called LA180
> The LA120 wwas an input/output terminal, connected over RS232 and the LA36
> (DECwriter III) used current loop (Generally to a PDP console card)
>
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We had LA36's with RS232 connections. We bought them in 1978 in the
Netherlands. The LA120 and a bit later the LA100 did bidirectional
printing. I did not like the LA100. It was noisy and you needed a
sturdy table to put it on.

Bart