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Subject: [William "Chops" Westfield : Winter 1984 DECUS Trip Report.]
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From: Richard Furuta 

Excerpted from a longer message:
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Date: Tue 18 Dec 84 15:06:28-PST
From: William "Chops" Westfield 
Subject: Winter 1984 DECUS Trip Report.
To: sri-bboards@SRI-KL.ARPA, tops20@SU-SCORE.ARPA

As you may or may not know, I attended the Winter 1984 Digital Equipment
Corporation Users Society symposium last week (from 9-Dec through 14-Dec),
along with several other people from SRI, and about 7000 other DEC customers.
Here are some observations resulting from that trip.


DECUS Exhibition Hall

Most interesting new product:	The LN03 laser printer.
	This printer is an 8ppm table top laser printer that lies somewhere
	between the smaller HP and imagen laser printers in capability.
	Unlike the HP, the LN03 has downloadable fonts, and has better
	graphics capabilities.  It does not have full resolution full page
	graphics like the imagen, however.  Unlike either the HP or imagen,
	the LN03 is not based on the Cannon copier - whereas the entire
	print drum on the cannon needs to be replaced frequently, the LN03
	has the more traditional (and requiring more skill to fix) multiple
	part copier mechanism.  It isn't clear whether this is an advantage
	or a disadvantage.  SRI's degree of interest in this printer is
	probably dependent on whether it becomes supported by the text
	formatters in use here (SCRIBE, TEX, and TROFF mostly, I guess).

[[The rest of the message dealt with DEC-20 issues and has been
deleted. --Rick]]
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