[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Rainbow magazine and manually typing those printed programs!

[Bill Pierce]

Gene,
 Don't forget the , & .     ; & :   O & 0    B & 8 & & & %    [ ] & { } & ( )   - & _ & =
If the mag slipped the slightest bit in the print process and blurred the text, all of those were indestinguishable. Then sometimes, some genius at Fasoft would get the bright idea to put a graphic behind the listing... real smart. Then there were the several times Lonnie changed fonts trying to save space, then there was the time Lonnie decided to use a font that produced listings with lines longer than 32 characters. That immediately changed the next monh after 10,000 letters to the editor. And the worst of all, 6 pages of Speech System ads and 3 pages of Owlware ads right in the middle of a long listing.

And I never could remember which key produced  ~ 
BP

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Sep 12, 2012 11:34 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Rainbow magazine and manually typing those printed programs!


On Wednesday 12 September 2012 11:17:42 abrower did opine:

> Thanks bud!  I wasn't sure how many others are still out there like me
> remembering such things
> 
> --- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, Russell Flowers <coffeecircle at ...> 
wrote:
> > That's great - I shared this on Facebook.
> > 
> > -- Russ Flowers
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What I remember most from such activities way back when was the inability 
to ascertain if the character was a 1(one) or an l(ell) because the dmp 
Lonnie used to make the offset plates for the Rainbow did not distinguish 
between them, and on the odd occasions when he made plates using a daisy 
wheel printer, he must have had 2 printers because one of them looked 
identical to my own Brother DWP, and the other looked exactly like the pure 
ascii wheel in my xerox 1650-ro.  Both of those printers eventually did get 
a dremel modified wheel so I could tell the diff between those two 
characters.

I still have the xerox, although I don't know why since ribbons for it are 
extinct.  I did find a box of them about 5 years ago, but they were 
unusable, the film was so brittle it shattered on the first strike.

As you all know by now, anything I want to print from the coco now, gets 
sent up the usb cable from drivewire version of /p where drivewire.jar 
writes it to a file, and a script that watches that directory grabs it and 
sends it back through cups on this linux box and back down the same cable 
to the hub, thence to a Brother B&W laser.  Absolutely beautiful 600 dpi 
output at 22 pages a minute. Whats not to like for aging eyes?

Cheers, Gene
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