retrocomputing: driving 'miss' daisywheel

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sat Sep 25 19:17:53 UTC 2004


Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> I'm hoping there are geeks out there venerable enough to remember 
> something about printing to a daisywheel. I just scored an IBM 
> Wheelwriter 10 Series II 6783 typewriter with parallel print option from 
> Freecycle.
> 
> There's nothing about printer codes in the manual, and seemingly nothing 
> on the net about controlling it. Dunno if it'll talk Diablo or Qume 
> codes, but even these seem to have almost entirely dropped from memory.
> 
> cheers,
>  Stewart
> 
> [ why bother?
> 
>  1. The print quality from one of these is fabulous; sharp, with a 
> slight indentation into the paper.
> 
>  2. It works. My Epson inkjet complains bitterly (and sometimes 
> expensively, by demanding new cartridges) if it's not powered up at 
> least every month. This IBM hadn't been turned on for 10 years, but 
> powered up and worked first time.
> 
>  3. It was free, and is gloriously mechanical.
> 
>  4. Why *not* bother? :-)
> ]
> 

It might also be ebcdic.

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