-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 00:59, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 00:33 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/21/07 00:09, Steve Lamb wrote: >>> Kevin Mark wrote: >>>> I recall they are huge, requiring a lot of floor space and required a >>>> noise cover otherwise you'd hear ear-splitting, griding noise. X-( >>> Yup, yup and yup. Of course having to work on some model or another of >>> green-bar printer for the past year-and-a-half lemme tell you, nothing >>> better. >>> You forgot to mention that once the top is down the modern models are >>> extremely quiet and extremely fast. I'd like to see a laser printer crank >>> out >>> 500, triple-strike pages without jamming every few minutes. Hell, the >>> lasers >>> at my current job, even the large floor-space consuming office model, jam >>> more >>> often than the several green-bars we have combined. >> Really? Back in the late 80s, the company I worked for had some >> Xerox 8700(???) printers (each fed by a 9-track tape drive and >> controlled by a Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal) and remember how >> durable they were. During tax season, they'd go thru dozens of >> reams of paper per day without jamming. Of course, they were well >> maintained... >> >>> Think of it this way: >>> >>> Laser - Windows, looks purdy, craps out all the time. >>> Greenbar - Linux, klunky and not as pretty but gets the work done right. >> Linux driving a band printer? >> >> The last band printer I saw was connected to a VAXfarm back in 1991. > > The best printer I have ever used for printing reams and reams of > tractor feed... shuttle and pin printers. Mannesman-Tally using 661 > printing coding.
Hmph. If it doesn't have data cables the size of your pinky, it isn't a *real* printer... ;) http://www.recycledgoods.com/Images/s_p_7420_3.jpg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF2/u9S9HxQb37XmcRApQJAKCWwppfOhwHHFIS0bj/E90ngRQrAQCfXqVZ puLT5GuTDYgKDip3i0a6dtM= =pECg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
