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[Chris Elmquist]

On Tuesday (12/06/2011 at 10:23PM -0800), John Nagle wrote:
> 
> There really isn't much interest in unusual dot matrix printers of the
> 1970s.

Hey! Speak for yourself!  :-)

I have several examples of the Texas Instruments Silent 700 series of
thermal printers/data terminals and they use thermal paper and a print
head that heats the dot matrix rather than hammers it.  These are roughly
1975 technology.

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/ti-tymshare-100/DSC02096.JPG

http://nnlm.gov/pnr/images/dragonfly/texassilent700.gif

The original paper is no longer made but fortunately they still make
thermal paper for FAX machines (but I suspect for not too much longer)
and this works in these terminals after a slight adjustment to the
contrast control.

Chris N0JCF

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Chris Elmquist