Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Re: IBM6670p? Message-ID: <825@uw-beaver> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 17:31:55 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.825 Posted: Fri Feb 3 17:31:55 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 20:46:46 EST Sender: root@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 20 From ima!haddock!johnl@CCA-UNIX Fri Feb 3 14:31:47 1984 Our Los Angeles office has a 6670. I'm certainly underwhelmed. The interface is extremely baroque, being bisync sort of compatible with mag card selectric data streams passed as though to a 2770 RJE station. Unless they've changed the microcode a lot, they're not bit addressable; you get a limited (but attractive) set of fonts. You can have your letterhead and signature digitized for a price. There are strange resrtictions on the number of fonts usable on a single page. You can indeed use it as a copier, and even interrupt print jobs to make a few copies and let it pick up. The interface is limited to 4800 or 9600 baud, much slower than the printer can go, so while you're copying it's spooling onto an internal floppy disk, and when you're done it quickly catches up. The main complaint is that they seem to be built for about a 10% duty cycle. If you run them 6 or 8 hours a day, they break constantly. Here in Boston, we got an Imagen. John Levine, ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.ARPA