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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

#15125 — printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe

http://www.righto.com/2017/12/creating-christmas-card-on-vintage-ibm_7.html

Next, I needed a program to print out this file. I have some experience
writing assembly code for the IBM 1401 from my previous projects to
perform Bitcoin mining on the 1401 and generate Mandelbrot fractals. So
I wrote a short program to read in lines from punched cards and print
these lines on the high-speed 1403 line printer. The simple solution
would be to read a line from a card, print the line, and repeat until
done. Instead, I read the entire page image into memory first, and then
print the entire page. The reason is that this allows multiple greeting
cards to be printed without reloading and rereading the entire card
deck. The second complication is that the printer is 132 columns wide,
while the punch cards are 80 columns. Instead of using two punch cards
per print line, I encoded cards so a "-" in the first column indicates
that the card image should be shifted to the right hand side of the
page. (I could compress the data, of course, but I didn't want to go to
that much effort.)

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#15133

It reminds me of The Print Shop and Print Master in Apple 2s and PC DOS. ! ;)


In comp.misc RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> wrote:
> http://www.righto.com/2017/12/creating-christmas-card-on-vintage-ibm_7.html

> Next, I needed a program to print out this file. I have some experience
> writing assembly code for the IBM 1401 from my previous projects to
> perform Bitcoin mining on the 1401 and generate Mandelbrot fractals. So
> I wrote a short program to read in lines from punched cards and print
> these lines on the high-speed 1403 line printer. The simple solution
> would be to read a line from a card, print the line, and repeat until
> done. Instead, I read the entire page image into memory first, and then
> print the entire page. The reason is that this allows multiple greeting
> cards to be printed without reloading and rereading the entire card
> deck. The second complication is that the printer is 132 columns wide,
> while the punch cards are 80 columns. Instead of using two punch cards
> per print line, I encoded cards so a "-" in the first column indicates
> that the card image should be shifted to the right hand side of the
> page. (I could compress the data, of course, but I didn't want to go to
> that much effort.)

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#15147

I still use The Print Shop and an ImageWriter II to make cards and stuff.
My wife thinks I’m nuts.

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#15148

On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 05:55:34 -0000 (UTC)
Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> I still use The Print Shop and an ImageWriter II to make cards and stuff.
> My wife thinks I’m nuts.


I'm impressed that the ImageWriter II still works.  Testament to old
printing technology, I guess.  I can scarcely keep a modern all-in-one
printer working for more than a year.  And of course they're designed
so that any one malfunctioning part prevents you from being able to use
any of it.

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#15155

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 05:55:34 -0000 (UTC)
> Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> I still use The Print Shop and an ImageWriter II to make cards and stuff.
>> My wife thinks I’m nuts.
> 
> 
> I'm impressed that the ImageWriter II still works.  Testament to old
> printing technology, I guess.  I can scarcely keep a modern all-in-one
> printer working for more than a year.  And of course they're designed
> so that any one malfunctioning part prevents you from being able to use
> any of it.
> 

I've got an HP Photosmart that's been working for beaucoup years, but I
don't use it heavily.


-- 
Pete

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#15164

In comp.misc Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 05:55:34 -0000 (UTC)
> > Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > 
> >> I still use The Print Shop and an ImageWriter II to make cards and stuff.
> >> My wife thinks I???m nuts.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm impressed that the ImageWriter II still works.  Testament to old
> > printing technology, I guess.  I can scarcely keep a modern all-in-one
> > printer working for more than a year.  And of course they're designed
> > so that any one malfunctioning part prevents you from being able to use
> > any of it.
> > 

> I've got an HP Photosmart that's been working for beaucoup years, but I
> don't use it heavily.

Same here! Which model? I still use my 8450 from 11/2004! I need to 
print out my Christmas cards from HP Photo Creations (made my own).

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#15171

Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> In comp.misc Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 05:55:34 -0000 (UTC)
>>> Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I still use The Print Shop and an ImageWriter II to make cards and stuff.
>>>> My wife thinks I???m nuts.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I'm impressed that the ImageWriter II still works.  Testament to old
>>> printing technology, I guess.  I can scarcely keep a modern all-in-one
>>> printer working for more than a year.  And of course they're designed
>>> so that any one malfunctioning part prevents you from being able to use
>>> any of it.
>>> 
> 
>> I've got an HP Photosmart that's been working for beaucoup years, but I
>> don't use it heavily.
> 
> Same here! Which model? I still use my 8450 from 11/2004! I need to 
> print out my Christmas cards from HP Photo Creations (made my own).
> 

C3180.

-- 
Pete

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#15156

On 2017-12-14, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 05:55:34 -0000 (UTC)
> Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> I still use The Print Shop and an ImageWriter II to make cards and stuff.
>> My wife thinks I’m nuts.
>
>
> I'm impressed that the ImageWriter II still works.  Testament to old
> printing technology, I guess.  I can scarcely keep a modern all-in-one
> printer working for more than a year.  And of course they're designed
> so that any one malfunctioning part prevents you from being able to use
> any of it.

If you want that authentic ruled line printer paper look...

<http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/%7Erichard/bg.html>

Arrgh - I had hoped to never see that stuff again.

-- 
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coffee every day...

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#15150

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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#15153

In comp.misc Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
> 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. :-)

We're all nuts. ;)
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Kanawa
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#15152

In comp.misc Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> I still use The Print Shop and an ImageWriter II to make cards and stuff.
> My wife thinks I???m nuts.

Wow. On which Apple 2?
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perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught 
and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a 
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Kanawa
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#15180

Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> In comp.misc Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> I still use The Print Shop and an ImageWriter II to make cards and stuff.
>> My wife thinks I???m nuts.
> 
> Wow. On which Apple 2?

IIgs, got it as a lad and it still works great. It’s tricked out to some
degree, 8MB RAM, CFFA, but I still need a SCSI card and an Apple2pi, and an
upgrade to the CPU.

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