[Info-vax] DECwriter

[Bart.Zorn@gmail.com]

On Nov 28, 10:50 am, Mike Rechtman <m... at rechtman.com> wrote:
> Bart.Z... 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)
>
> >> --
> >> Mike R.
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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.
>
> --
> Mike R.
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The  LA100 was a desktop model, the LA120 a pedestal like the LA36.
The LA100 was fast and supported speeds up to at least 9600 baud. But
like I said, it was noisy.

Bart