19-04-2022, 04:12 PM
Thanks Ewan and Ernest for your replies. 
Your solution to 1a) sound great Ewan, would love to see it!
Re: Raspberry Pi - I don't have anything specific in mind at the moment - I'll need to think about this a bit more. I've just finished building the Obsolescence Guaranteed PiDP-8i (have finally learned to solder Ewan) and feel there's a lot of potential there for something...
Re: floppy drives - yes, that sounds quite problematic, hmm, might need to not worry about that one.
Re: Printer - yes Ewan, I'd definitly be interested in the printer you mentioned, I do miss not having one - no problems that it's not a Microbee one. One thing, I can't find any info on it though - I don't know the model name and google doesn't give me anything - who made it?
And re: your idea about a parallel port plugin converting to postscript - that sounds excellent. I remember doing work converting different file formats to postscript years ago and would love to help with the programming side of this.
Ernest, thanks for your reply - I've looked on hackaday and seen the article I think you're referring to - will have to read into this more.
And ubee512 looks very interesting - that's a command-line program with lots of options - I'm tempted to write something like a launcher in C# with all the options easily accessible (unless there already is one!.
Greg
Your solution to 1a) sound great Ewan, would love to see it!
Re: Raspberry Pi - I don't have anything specific in mind at the moment - I'll need to think about this a bit more. I've just finished building the Obsolescence Guaranteed PiDP-8i (have finally learned to solder Ewan) and feel there's a lot of potential there for something...
Re: floppy drives - yes, that sounds quite problematic, hmm, might need to not worry about that one.
Re: Printer - yes Ewan, I'd definitly be interested in the printer you mentioned, I do miss not having one - no problems that it's not a Microbee one. One thing, I can't find any info on it though - I don't know the model name and google doesn't give me anything - who made it?
And re: your idea about a parallel port plugin converting to postscript - that sounds excellent. I remember doing work converting different file formats to postscript years ago and would love to help with the programming side of this.
Ernest, thanks for your reply - I've looked on hackaday and seen the article I think you're referring to - will have to read into this more.
And ubee512 looks very interesting - that's a command-line program with lots of options - I'm tempted to write something like a launcher in C# with all the options easily accessible (unless there already is one!
.Greg