Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: [William "Chops" Westfield: Winter 1984 DECUS Trip Report.] Message-ID: <252@uw-beaver> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 00:37:42 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.252 Posted: Wed Dec 19 00:37:42 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Dec-84 02:37:44 EST Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 34 From: Richard Furuta Excerpted from a longer message: --------------- 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]] -------