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!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!houxf!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: Re: Talaris Systems. Message-ID: <1882@uw-beaver> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 12:56:32 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1882 Posted: Thu Oct 11 12:56:32 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 06:13:17 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 23 From: tektronix!tekred!billr@uw-beaver.arpa We have a Talaris 1200 laser printer running on our pdp11/70 (2.9bsd). Being the first pdp11 site to run their troff support software (they only guaranteed it would work on a Vax), we had some initial software conversion problems and font file problems, but it is all working now. It comes with 9 standard fonts in ROM and other fonts online that are downloaded to the controller as needed. The troff support s/w includes a cat to qms conversion program and all the troff font sizes (6pt to 36pt) in Roman, Bold, Italic and Special. In addition you have the choice of a serif or san-serif font style. The print quality is excellent. I think it is much better than the Symbolics LGP1200 (Canon based) printer. The Talaris/QMS software was the only one we had a chance of being able to run on a pdp. Their software and hardware support has also been very responsive. Now if I can just get the QMSPLOT package to fit on our pdp, I'll be happy.