[rescue] Ss 4/5 speed/framebuffers& typesetters.

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In a message dated 2/19/02 4:27:37 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
ssandau at bath.tmac.com writes:


> Typesetting machine I had cost me $2000 to add 256K memory to it! No
> HDD. Had to reboot the machine to a special program just to copy
> floppies and such. I actually miss that. Varityper was the company.
> First one I had was electro-mechanical, second one was digital. The
> digital one was a $40,000 unit new. Bought it for $250. Sold it for
> scrap

Wow, someone else with Varitypers. I had a electro mechanical 5800 and a 
digital 6400.  My 6400 had a similar fate, scrap. I still have the lens array 
out of a 510.
It was only yesterday.......

Paxton
Astoria, OR