[Info-vax] DECwriter

[Mike Rechtman]

Bart.Zorn at gmail.com wrote:
> 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
But the LA100 was about 1/4 the size of a LA120.
It only had two speeds (300 and 110 baud?) with a key to select a speed.

Gee... Nostalgia aint what it used to be.

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