Hello from Gregg C Levine
Just for fun, where can I find one of those things? I think I remember
something about how to have it work as a console for an ordinary
personal computer. Not that I'd want to, all of you understand, it just
sounds like fun.
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Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-vax-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-vax-owner@netbsd.org] On
Behalf
> Of Robertdkeys@aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:42 PM
> To: jamesg@PARRIMARK.COM.AU; mcguire@neurotica.com
> Cc: port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: [by now well off topic] RE: Whineyvax
>=20
> Golly, we be dating ourselves, here, with hard
> copy printers.  Back when I was running a lot
> of 15/19/28/32/33/37/40 ttys, we used ribbon reinkers,
> regularly, and I recall extending the life of
> the ribbons by oiling them with something like
> WD40, or light machine oil.  Using a model 40
> chain printer off a VAX might still be fun,
> albeit noisey as the dickens.....  Somewhere I
> still have a box of ribbons for those machines
> (they fit decwriters, too).
>=20
> Enuf fun dredging up the ancient dayz.....(:+\\
> It makes me feel older than that hills....
>=20
> Bob