[HECnet] Which is THE dec printer?

<Paul_Koning at Dell.com> writes: On Jan 15, 2014, at 1:26 PM, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote: Hello! Oddly enough the phone company besides having a good interest in things DEC related, also made stuff in Dayton....... =20 Which model was considered to be a DECwriter? I seem to recall seeing one once, and also recall the discussions concerning the thing in a certain novel........ (Or other book) The first device called DECwriter was the LA30, an amazing piece of junk kn= own to jam every few pages. It also came with a really bad keyboard. Was = it uppercase only? I don=92t remember anymore. It needed fill after the c= arriage return or it would lose characters (and jam even more often, too). = We had one in college for a short while. Next came the LA36, which was something entirely different. Rock solid, an= d it didn=92t need fill after carriage return. Upper and lower case, of co= urse. The LA120, if I remember right, was the first DEC printing terminal to do b= idirectional printing. It used the T-11 as its microcontroller to make tha= t level of sophistication possible. NOT! It's an 8080! -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.