[sebhc] printer driver

[Joshua Barone]

if you use an ocr program like text bridge you can actually take those 
photocopies and make them into pristine pdfs that way you could even edit 
them if you find mistakes.

-Joshua Barone

>From: "Barry Watzman" <Watzman at neo.rr.com>
>Reply-To: sebhc at sebhc.org
>To: <sebhc at sebhc.org>
>Subject: RE: [sebhc] printer driver
>Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:05:06 -0500
>
>Let me make a suggestion:  If someone will photocopy the original H14 
>manual
>to individual 8.5"x11" pages (single or double sided), and send those to 
>me,
>I will convert them to a PDF file.  I have a high-end scanner with ADF and
>can do this relatively quickly and easily.
>
>In making the copy, remember, GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out).  The PDF will
>be no better than the photocopies.
>
>Barry Watzman
>Watzman at neo.rr.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: sebhc at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of Lee Hart
>Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:54 PM
>To: sebhc at sebhc.org
>Subject: Re: [sebhc] printer driver
>
> >> If I remember it used to calculate the printhead temp by monitoring
> >> the resistance of one of the printhead coils?
>
>Yes, that is correct.
>
>Dave Dunfield wrote:
> > I do recall the thermal limiting after you had printed a few lines.
> > I don't think mine waited "5 to 10" minutes, but I do recall that
> > it would go into mode with a few second delay between each line
>
>Also correct. The temperature sensing circuit had two outputs to the
>microcomputer; 'warm' and 'hot'. A 'warm' head added a few seconds delay
>between lines. A 'hot' head stopped printing entirely until the head
>temperature came back down to 'warm'.
>
>The peak printing rate was actually quite high; 165 chars/sec. That was
>actually pretty fast in those days.
>
> > anyone have a scan of the H14 manual?
>
>No scans, but I have the original manual. Send me your address offline
>and I'd be happy to loan it to you (if you promise to return it).
>
> > My very first printer was a Teletype Model-28, which I generated
> > baudot data for by toggleing the interrupt-enable line on my first
> > homebuilt 8080 (didn't use interrupts in that system) - now that's
> > going a long way back!
>
>Yes indeed! My first printer was a baudot teletype, left over from my
>ham radio RTTY work. 60 baud -- now *that* was slow!
>
>I graduated up to a Selectric typewriter with a board to run it as a
>printer. 137.5 baud, and another oddball shift/rotate code to deal with.
>
>So, the H14 was actually quite a step up!
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