Subject: LQP45

From: [email-masked] (Charles Lasner)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 05:00:41 GMT

Anyone got a clue what a DEC LQP45 is?  (Not LQP01, 02, 03 or 8E, but 45).

For the less-informed, it's a DEC printer of some kind.

Also, I once heard of an LQPSE; perhaps they are one and the same.  If not,
what is an LQPSE?

cj "Enquiring document preparers want to know" l

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From: [email-masked] (John B. Campbell)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 14:37:12 GMT

>   cj "Enquiring document preparers want to know" l

The LQP45 was (is) a daisy-wheel printer that DEC planned to make the
successor to the LQP03.  I saw a bunch of them for sale, in original
cartons, a few months ago here in Boston, and almost thought of buying
one to replace the LQP02 I have.  But then I looked it up in the DEC
Direct catalog and found that the supplies and daisy wheels were not
compatible and I didn't relish buying new ones.

The -45 was not notably faster than the LQP02.  I have a hunch the 45
numbering scheme related to its character rate (45 cps.) in which case
it's a tad slower in sprint speed than the -03.  If DEC really
intended the 45 to be the successor to the 03, it might be software
compatible.

For what it's worth, ribbons for the 45 are $$15/box -- for the
LQP02/03 they're $48/box.  Box might hold more ribbons, though.

I don't know as much about the LQPSE.  The DECDirect catalog has
ribbons for the LQP01 that are the same size as for the LQP01.
Ribbons for the -02 are different.  Ribbons for the -03 are different
still.  That leads me to suspect that the SE is a pretty old
mechanism.

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From: [email-masked] (Bob Leigh)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 15:57:14 GMT

>Also, I once heard of an LQPSE; perhaps they are one and the same.  If not,

A Diablo-looking daisy-wheel printer built into a wheeled cabinet about 24"
high.  I saw it used with a WS211, a PDP-8-based, multi-user DEC word
processor that came before the DECmate I.
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