retrocomputing: driving 'miss' daisywheel

[Colin McGregor]

I still deal with impact printers because I still have to deal with (from
time to time) multi-part forms that use that carbonless carbon paper. For
that stuff you must have an impact printer, though in my case I use
dot-matrix printers. Still about 15 years ago I was using (even by that
times) old daisy wheel printer to spit out cheques for my then (now
bankrupt) employer....

Also, while I don't know about daisywheel printers I do know that some firms
such as Lexmark are still building/selling dot matrix printers for business
forms handling....

"Stewart C. Russell" <scruss-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> on Saturday, September 25, 2004
11:18 AM 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? :-)
> ]
>
> -- 
> $,="\n";foreach(split('',"\3\3\3c>\0>c\177cc\0~c~``\0cc\177cc"))
> {$a++;$_=unpack('B8',$_);tr,01,\40#,;$b[$a%6].=$_};print @b,"\n"
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