[HECnet] Which is THE dec printer?

[Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-]

Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> writes:

On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Dave McGuire wrote:

On 01/15/2014 01:20 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:

No receive-only LA120?! ;)

(Is that was the LA180 is?   I can't remember what the models number for
the receive-only LA120 was.)   I like my printers big. ;)

There is in fact a receive-only LA120.   There's one here at my place,
though it belongs to someone else.   I've forgotten the model suffix.


I've forgotten it as well.   Heh.

The LA180 is one that I've always thought of as an independent device.
It is considerably faster than the LA36 (180 CPS vs. 30 CPS) for
starters...so I'd doubt it was derived from the LA36.   But then why
would it have been derived from the LA120, when the LA120 family already
has a print-only version?   And it tops out at 120CPS, and prints
bidirectionally...the LA180 is unidirectional.   The LA120 is also FAR
"smarter", with runtime-configurable setup options, escape sequence
processing for settings, etc.   The LA180 does none of that.