Re: Printer cards

[Silicon Sam <SiliconSam@gmail.com>]

On Oct 15, 3:05 am, Tristan Mumford <xtristan.xmumf...@xgmail.xcom>
wrote:
> 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.
>
  They did change, after a lot of complaints I am sure.  The cards I
was talking about has a light brown edge to it.  And the green
coloring is darker as well.  I'll see if I still have an example of it
somewhere.

Raymond