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Subject: Re: IBM6670p?
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Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 17:31:55 EST
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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