[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[ChrisQ]

On 08/23/12 12:04, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

>
> My first computer printer was a Lorenz LO-15 Teletype driven by a Flesher
> TU-170 (John probably knows what that is!) to convert TTL to 60ma loop.
> I wrote the Baudot Driver software in Z80 Assembler and used it on a
> TRS-80 Model III.  :-)  And that's the true definition of being perverse!!
>
> bill
> (KB3YV, and formerly DA1WO)
>

One of my first printers was a Flexowriter variant for typesetting called
a "Justowriter", which used baudot code and a 6th bit for the letters / 
figures
shift. Built a diode matrix translator from ascii and the hi voltage drivers
to the 100 volt dc solenoids. Very noisy, but quite reliable.

Later aquired a GE Terminet (1200 ?), which was ascii and weighed around
70lbs. Hard work to lift to the bench. Worked real well for a couple of 
years
or so though...

Regards,

Chris