On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 01/15/2014 09:58 AM, Daniel Soderstrom wrote:
The chances of a printer turning up in Perth, WA are zip. If I had to
pay money for one "desert island" DEC printer. What would it be?
I'm not sure it'd be fair to designate one printer out of so many
different models, with such different capabilities.
My opinion, though...If you're talking about an output-only device,
assuming for the minicomputer family, my personal favorite is the LA180.
It has its faults (unidirectional printing comes to mind) but overall
it's a great printer. My opinion of it is not objective because I had
one for years on my first PDP-11.
No receive-only LA120?! ;)
(Is that was the LA180 is? I can't remember what the models number for the receive-only LA120 was.) I like my printers big. ;)
For the "canonical" printing terminal, however, either the LA36 or
LA120 would be the most recognizable. They were to be found in nearly
every installation.
Hell, my grandpa who worked at the Ma Bell Columbus works recognises LA120-like stuff. He probably even recognises the LA120 itself.
-Dave
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From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
For the "canonical" printing terminal, however, either the LA36 or
LA120 would be the most recognizable. They were to be found in nearly
every installation.
I forget which model has a page in the printset showing the best orientation
for loading an entire 18-wheeler full of them, but it was one of those two.
They were certainly expecting to sell a lot of them!
John Wilson
D Bit
On 01/15/2014 09:58 AM, Daniel Soderstrom wrote:
The chances of a printer turning up in Perth, WA are zip. If I had to
pay money for one "desert island" DEC printer. What would it be?
I'm not sure it'd be fair to designate one printer out of so many
different models, with such different capabilities.
My opinion, though...If you're talking about an output-only device,
assuming for the minicomputer family, my personal favorite is the LA180.
It has its faults (unidirectional printing comes to mind) but overall
it's a great printer. My opinion of it is not objective because I had
one for years on my first PDP-11.
For the "canonical" printing terminal, however, either the LA36 or
LA120 would be the most recognizable. They were to be found in nearly
every installation.
-Dave
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New Kensington, PA
Hello!
The last I had heard Ian you are correct. Perth is indeed one of
several cities in Australia. Western portion in fact. It's named after
a respectable city in Scotland as it happens.
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Ian McLaughlin <ian at platinum.net> wrote:
I have a DEC LA210 printer sitting in my office that has to get out of here. It's free, except for shipping/pickup. It's in Kelowna, BC, Canada. I'm assuming WA is Western Australia, not Washington State.
Ian
On Jan 15, 2014, at 6:58 AM, Daniel Soderstrom <snaggs at mac.com> wrote:
The chances of a printer turning up in Perth, WA are zip. If I had to pay money for one "desert island" DEC printer. What would it be?
Kindly,
Daniel S derstr m
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I have a DEC LA210 printer sitting in my office that has to get out of here. It's free, except for shipping/pickup. It's in Kelowna, BC, Canada. I'm assuming WA is Western Australia, not Washington State.
Ian
On Jan 15, 2014, at 6:58 AM, Daniel Soderstrom <snaggs at mac.com> wrote:
The chances of a printer turning up in Perth, WA are zip. If I had to pay money for one "desert island" DEC printer. What would it be?
Kindly,
Daniel S derstr m
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On 2014-01-15 06:58, Daniel Soderstrom wrote:
The chances of a printer turning up in Perth, WA are zip. If I had to pay money for one "desert island" DEC printer. What would it be?
What are your requirements? What do you want to use it for? Connected to what?
Johnny
The chances of a printer turning up in Perth, WA are zip. If I had to pay money for one "desert island" DEC printer. What would it be?
Kindly,
Daniel S derstr m
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There are definitely people running the bridge in the US, but if they want to peer is another story.
Johnny
On 2014-01-14 21:31, Mark Abene wrote:
I'm going to try getting a GRE tunnel going with Dave McGuire
soonish... In the meantime, if someone has a speedy connection and is
already running 'bridge' (which would be simplest) let me know.
Thanks,
Mark
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:25 PM, <Paul_Koning at dell.com> wrote:
On Jan 14, 2014, at 8:17 PM, Mark Abene <phiber at phiber.com> wrote:
I'm not using the virtual cisco for HECnet at all, that's only for the
X.25 project (currently at sampsa.com, though I may run a local node
additionally).
For HECnet I'm just running a plain old fashioned Johnny-bridge. :)
I take it HECnet peers are lacking in the U.S.?
I guess I should put my Python router up permanently...
paul
I'm going to try getting a GRE tunnel going with Dave McGuire
soonish... In the meantime, if someone has a speedy connection and is
already running 'bridge' (which would be simplest) let me know.
Thanks,
Mark
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 5:25 PM, <Paul_Koning at dell.com> wrote:
On Jan 14, 2014, at 8:17 PM, Mark Abene <phiber at phiber.com> wrote:
I'm not using the virtual cisco for HECnet at all, that's only for the
X.25 project (currently at sampsa.com, though I may run a local node
additionally).
For HECnet I'm just running a plain old fashioned Johnny-bridge. :)
I take it HECnet peers are lacking in the U.S.?
I guess I should put my Python router up permanently...
paul
Cisco, GRE.
-Dave
On 01/14/2014 09:25 PM, Mark Abene wrote:
Awesome. Are you Johnny-bridging? Or doing something like DECnet
encapsulated in GRE?
We can go off-list to negotiate the link particulars...
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 01/14/2014 08:17 PM, Mark Abene wrote:
I'm not using the virtual cisco for HECnet at all, that's only for the
X.25 project (currently at sampsa.com, though I may run a local node
additionally).
For HECnet I'm just running a plain old fashioned Johnny-bridge. :)
I take it HECnet peers are lacking in the U.S.?
I can provide tunnel endpoints. Real Cisco hardware here, real static
IP addresses, good bandwidth.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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