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Subject: IBM 6670p?
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Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 17:30:51 EST
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From cak@Purdue.ARPA Tue Jan 31 14:30:42 1984
Does anyone have experience with this beast? An IBM salesman recently
contacted us about it, claiming

- can be loaded with up to 2700 sheets of paper
- all point addressable - graphics, fonts, etc.
- down loaded fonts
- rotation mode - portrait or landscape
- is both a copier and a printer
- can print on both sides of paper
- loads of other features.

Cost of basic unit (hmm, does the basic unit do all those things?)
would be about $31k to us (don't know how that relates to the rest of
the world). It uses EBCDIC, but the salesman claims knowledge of code
converters from ASCII. They are even willing to demo it from their
Chicago office over a phone line!

So, I would like to hear of good/bad expriences, if someone knows what
marking engine is used, etc. I have heard from one person already that
the paper path is quite baroque and that the IBM repair people spend a
lot of time fixing paper jams; anything else?

Cheers,
chris
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