Vercus
Experienced Member
Hello all,
I just got a DECPrinter I today, and have some questions about it.
It's got plenty of foam rot, as expected, and there is foam all over the insides. Any tips on an easy way to remove it? I thought of just using a vacuum cleaner or compressed air can to blow it out / suck it up. However, some of the stuff is kinda on there, and would need to be kinda scraped off. However, I don't want to damage anything by using a paint scraper, etc.
Also, since I don't have a PDP-11 yet, would there be a way I could connect and use this with a modern PC in the meantime? I am told it uses an 8-bit parallel interface with handshaking? Not sure how that differs from a conventional modern parallel port printer.
My DOS/Win98 machine has MS Word 5 for DOS on it, which has numerous old printer drivers available, but not the DECPrinter directly. Perhaps another driver would work?
Any ideas where to get wide format tractor feed paper? I've found regular 8.5 by 11, but thought it would be cool to use something bigger.
It's got a button that says "SET VFU" on it. What does this do?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Jon
I just got a DECPrinter I today, and have some questions about it.
It's got plenty of foam rot, as expected, and there is foam all over the insides. Any tips on an easy way to remove it? I thought of just using a vacuum cleaner or compressed air can to blow it out / suck it up. However, some of the stuff is kinda on there, and would need to be kinda scraped off. However, I don't want to damage anything by using a paint scraper, etc.
Also, since I don't have a PDP-11 yet, would there be a way I could connect and use this with a modern PC in the meantime? I am told it uses an 8-bit parallel interface with handshaking? Not sure how that differs from a conventional modern parallel port printer.
My DOS/Win98 machine has MS Word 5 for DOS on it, which has numerous old printer drivers available, but not the DECPrinter directly. Perhaps another driver would work?
Any ideas where to get wide format tractor feed paper? I've found regular 8.5 by 11, but thought it would be cool to use something bigger.
It's got a button that says "SET VFU" on it. What does this do?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Jon
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