[Coco] TP10 paper

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 19 May 2017 12:46:44 Carlos Camacho wrote:

> There is a Korean distributor selling the right width thermal paper on
> ebay. But you must buy a case.
> Carlos

And from prior experience, a case of 24 will outlast the printhead by 
years. And the printout fades to invisibility even in a black plastic 
bag to keep it in the dark, in the freezer at -15F in less than a year.

IOW, if you want archival storage of your grand, 10 million seller novel, 
put it on a broadcast audio cart, which will outlive the cart machines  
usefullness and be taken out of service because everything is on hard 
drives, even at my local ma & pa AM radio station.

One of the first computer programs I wrote, by looking up the nemonic and 
entering its hex value into memory, is on such a cart, 3 copies, on a 
top shelf here at the coyote.den, along with a hand typed copy of that 
src code for an RCA 1802 processor.  I did that in 1978, and I checked 
in 1994 to see if the CE knew about it, same CE, and yes, it was still 
in use quite a few times a day. That impressed me greatly, because 
around a broadcast facility, production methods and machines change 
about annually. I haven't checked since, but this was a niche filler no 
one else in the broadcast equipment making field ever tried to fill 
except Microtime.

Microtime had a half the functions prototype at the NAB show in the 
spring of '79. I looked at it, even played with it and said mine does 
this and that, that yours can't do. An hour later the legal's had said 
we can't touch that, kill it dead. I think they had more lawyers than 
engineers. :) So it was gone from the display and the talking head I 
talked to had never heard of such a product.

I should have gone into production on the kitchen table, but technically 
the code belonged to the station as I wrote it on company time.  Such is 
life... 

Now with digital everything, I expect it was one of the kits that hit the 
recycle bin the morning of July 1 2008 after Never Twice Same Color 
broadcasting was turned off at midnight June 30th, dead and buried by 
FCC edict.  Only a decade overdue IMO.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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