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Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe

From Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net>
Newsgroups comp.misc, alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe
Date 2017-12-14 16:18 -0500
Organization albasani.net
Message-ID <87zi6luhxd.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> (permalink)
References <tl91ge-hcr.ln1@raspberry.therandymon.com> <EYSdnbwvzJeEebPHnZ2dnUU7-R2dnZ2d@earthlink.com> <p0t3ol$bvf$1@dont-email.me>

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On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 05:55:34 -0000 (UTC), Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
>
> I still use The Print Shop and an ImageWriter II to make cards and stuff.
> My wife thinks I’m nuts.

Not having real hardware I did emulate a Commodore 64 and loaded The
Print Shop and was able to start printing to my host's (Linux Debian with
CUPS) printer. But the emulation always crashed half way through, when
about to print the second page.

And yes, I am confirmed nuts. :-)
-- 
Andreas
You know you are a redneck if
you think that dom perignon is a mafia leader.

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printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2017-12-10 22:12 -0500
  Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-12-11 14:01 -0600
    Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2017-12-14 05:55 +0000
      Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-12-14 14:47 -0500
        Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2017-12-14 15:49 -0700
          Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-12-16 14:49 -0600
            Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2017-12-18 07:38 -0700
        Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-12-15 00:44 +0100
      Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2017-12-14 16:18 -0500
        Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-12-14 16:06 -0600
      Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-12-14 16:05 -0600
        Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2017-12-23 20:17 +0000

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