9 Aug
2018
9 Aug
'18
7:45 p.m.
On Thu, 9 Aug 2018, Warner Losh wrote:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 11:56 PM Jim Geist
<velocityboy(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't have much experience with hardcopy terminals, but I did use the
WD-40 trick on dot-matrix printers in the 80s (Commodore MPS 803 was my
first printer).
Only time I used a hard-copy term was at my first job at a university
computer lab, our line printer went down, so, I dragged an LA120 out of
storage and hooked it up to serve as the printer until we could get the
line printer serviced.
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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
KF5LGQ
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:14 PM
<arnold(a)skeeve.com> wrote:
> Which was ...?
You can supposedly revive dried out ribbons by
soaking them in WD40. I’ve
heard of it but never tried it.
It works. For the ribbon type printers, it gets the ink moving enough to
get a second or third use from the cart. Print quality was dicey, but for
listings to do debugging on a dot matrix printer, quality wasn't the name
of the game. Just don't use too much...