Re: Printer cards

[Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumford@xgmail.xcom>]

Silicon Sam wrote:

> On Oct 14, 10:51 pm, Warren Ernst <wer...@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
>   The Epson APL card was a no-frills card.  Seemed to work with
> anything back in the day.  My only gripe with that card was the cheap-
> crap material they made the card of.  One good tug on the cable, and
> the card would snap in two pieces.  It was not a fiberglass type
> material used by everyone else, but some light brown material that had
> no bending properties.  Epson used it a LOT in their cards.  Their old
> dot matrix printer motherboards were made of this garbage.

I just went and dug out my Epson APL card. It looks pretty much like the off
white fibreglass that other manufacturers use. I can see a red watermark in
the edge connector. It is an "S".
Probably doesn't mean much to anyone, but just thought I'd say.

Tristan.


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