[Coco] DMP-106 Pinter sighted

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 15 March 2006 00:31, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 3/15/06 12:23:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>
>gene.heskett at verizon.net writes:
>>Ouch, Mike, that's a no-no, mentioning the DMP-105 and reliable in 
>> the same sentence.  Tsk Tsk
>
>Well, I did use it rather lightly, but when I did run it I ran it
> pretty hard, printing out UME scores in graphics mode.  The manual
> warned against running graphics mode for more than a few minutes at a
> time, fearing something would overheat, so I always kept a close
> watch on it.  (FWIW, the brass  primary gear on the carriage stepper
> motor of my Panasonic Epson knockoff gets  too hot to touch after a
> few minutes of printing organ rolls, but the old bear refuses to die,
> whew).
>
>So OK, I babied my DMP-105, but did push the thermal limits.  Sure it 
> had its share of paper jams, but those were the days when even

> professionals  swore "never leave the room during a print job." 
> --Mike K.

Unless the printer was a xerox daisy.  Absolutely the only thing that 
can stop a 1650-ro is a broken ribbon.  It stops in its tracks, you 
slip a new ribbon into it, push the reset button and it takes off on 
the next character with no hint of a problem in the output of that line 
of text.  I still have a few ribbons for it, but its out in the shed 
moldering away in the interests of sanity, its carriage return shakes 
the whole house.  Something like a 17" return if you have wide paper in 
it, with a head and motor that weighs much of a pound, is done in less 
than 110 milliseconds.  The usual 8" tractor feed is maybe 75-70 
milliseconds, THUMP clatter clatter, THUMP.  Its a 40 cps daisy, 
fastest one ever built. I gave $25 for it nearly 20 years ago at a ham 
swapmeet.  Of course it doesn't do graphics well at all.  I heard of a 
driver once that use the period to do a dmp style thing, but you would 
of course have to seriously redefine your definition of slow.  Couple 
of hours per page maybe?  Its interface was 1200 baud serial only in my 
version.  My coco's ran it just fine. :)





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