[HECnet] Which is THE dec printer?

Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes: On 2014-01-15 13:13, Cory Smelosky wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2014-01-15 10:20, Cory Smelosky wrote: 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. ;) So you should really aim for the LP26 or LP27 then... You need to be at least two people to even lift it off the ground. Perfect! ;) They are line printers. Which means they are large, heavy, fast, and very noisy. I have not seen any in the last 20 years now. I remember when we dragged an LP14 out of the computer room. Two people with shoulder straps, and we barely managed to lift it an inch off the floor while dragging it out. The LP27 was quiet compared to the desktop dot matrix printers of the same vintage connected to desktop systems. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.