| printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe [message #358352] |
Sun, 10 December 2017 22:12  |
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Originally posted by: RS Wood
http://www.righto.com/2017/12/creating-christmas-card-on-vin tage-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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| Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe [message #358385 is a reply to message #358352] |
Mon, 11 December 2017 15:01  |
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Originally posted by: ANTant
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-vin tage-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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| Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe [message #358603 is a reply to message #358566] |
Thu, 14 December 2017 14:47 |
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Originally posted by: RS Wood
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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| Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe [message #358611 is a reply to message #358566] |
Thu, 14 December 2017 16:18 |
Andreas Kohlbach
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 05:55:34 -0000 (UTC), Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
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> 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. :-)
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you think that dom perignon is a mafia leader.
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| Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe [message #358616 is a reply to message #358566] |
Thu, 14 December 2017 17:05 |
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Originally posted by: ANTant
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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| Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe [message #358617 is a reply to message #358611] |
Thu, 14 December 2017 17:06 |
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Originally posted by: ANTant
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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| Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe [message #358623 is a reply to message #358603] |
Thu, 14 December 2017 17:49 |
Peter Flass
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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.
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| Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe [message #358628 is a reply to message #358603] |
Thu, 14 December 2017 18:44 |
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Originally posted by: Paul Sture
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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| Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe [message #358764 is a reply to message #358623] |
Sat, 16 December 2017 15:49 |
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Originally posted by: ANTant
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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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
few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody." --Kiri Te
Kanawa
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| Re: printing Xmas cards on a vintage IBM 1401 mainframe [message #358910 is a reply to message #358764] |
Mon, 18 December 2017 09:38 |
Peter Flass
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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.
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Pete
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