1984 Vintage JUKI 6100 Daisy Wheel Printer demo from an HP 85A
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2014
- My friend Stan from the Computer History Museum gave me a Daisy Wheel printer that we had found a few weeks earlier and that he brought back to life. It's a JUKI 6100, but we affectionately call it the "Junky" printer, probably for the state we found it in, laying on the ground in a hangar. From the early 1980's. Turns out not only it works, but it has a serial interface. So there should be a way to make it work with my 1980 HP-85 as an external printer, since I have the serial drawer for the 85. And sure enough, it works great! It even prints both directions. Oh, the sweet sound of a daisy wheel printer... Print quality is awesome, and you can make carbon copy duplicates, but it is oh so loud and extremely slow... I guess the sheer clunkyness of the thing is what gives it its endearing charm.
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Wow, that brings back memories. I used to have one with the sheet feeder attachment. Slow, noisy, and the best print quality imaginable!
In 1992, I had an idiot English professor that would not allow papers to be computer generated. They had to be typewritten. I bought my Juki so she would never know. I just inserted a couple of typos and overstrikes and submitted my papers.
It came with a MacInker printer ribbon re-inking machine. I don't think I ever bought a ribbon for it. Of course I doubt that I ran more than 500 pages through it in the time I owned it. Yeah, 500 slow and very noisy pages!!!
I think I paid $100 for it. Worth every penny.
I was born in 1966 so I have had a front row seat to the evolution of computers from mainframes to affordable PCs. That printer was the first one we owned. I can remember feeling so privileged to have a copy and paste WP program in an "Eagle" home PC with a 10MB hard drive connected to that Daisy wheel machine gun. Time spent writing English term papers in high school were cut from weeks to days.
I recall my dad saying there was no need to upgrade to a 40mb hard drive because there was no way he could ever use up that much data. Lol.
I bought one of these new from a computer fair in London in 1984. It cost £340 then (>£1000 now) and was the first purchase I ever made with a credit card. I still have the card statement, but not the printer. Unless it is buried somewhere in the attic. So thank you CuriousMarc, this does take me back.
Those printing noises bring back memories of long ago....
The Juki 6100 can actually print graphics--one dot at a time using the period. I was using WordPerfect 5.2 for DOS with the Juki 6100 printer driver and when the printing process encountered graphics in a WordPerfect document, it printed periods repeatedly and advanced the platen and daisy wheel in very small increments.
Very cool, old HPs never die :-)
that thing looks gorgeous. new hp's however, can go to hell
Boy that brings back memories. I used to repair printers like these.
Brings back memories of servicing juki,brother and olympia daisy wheel. In local hospital platen knob broke off when I revisted with a new the women shouted her he comes to give me my new knob. If uk will find funny. Apprentice with me went very red.
Oh, wow - how sexy is this?!
I was nostalgically thinking of my old Juki 6100, which I bought when the first came out, and which I used initially with my BBC B micro then my first Amstrad PC1640 (I’m in the UK). With the BBC B Micro I managed to commission a college to write me a printer driver that enabled it to do decently justified paragraphs. I also had a program which enabled me to use it as a typewriter. With the Amstrad I purchased a hard drive (on a card) which had, if I recall it correctly, the massive storage capacity of 30 megabytes - and I never ran out of space (nowadays it’s no problem to happily fill a couple of 5TB drives)! Anyway, the Juki printer served me without fault for several years before I moved onto my first laser and inket printers. I’ve still got it all stored away somewhere (but not readily available).
I was simply looking, on Google, for a photo of the Juki when it suggested these videos on TH-cam - more than I’d hoped for or dreamt of. I just want to say how good it is to watch and hear one, bringing back the vision and sound that I loved so much and which kept me occupied for many a fine hour over several years! And, yes, it’s true - I probably don’t get out enough!
I’m so excited that I’m going to put this same comment on a couple of the others out there (and this is the first time I’ve ever posted anything on TH-cam). Thank you for putting it online!
+Gerry O'Hara Thanks so much for the story and nice comments! I turned it into a typewriter in this video: th-cam.com/video/XEPETpnZywA/w-d-xo.html
Ah the ribbons which you have to dispose of properly since they "log" everything you print ;)
The Tech-3 ribbons (with the blue thumb wheel) incremented only a fraction of the character width after being struck. Because characters overstrike each other on a Tech-3 ribbon several times, it could not be easily read to discover what had been typed.
Found a 6100 model likes your some 10 days ago. Then by luck saw a later (but rare) 6300 model two days after that. The former will now find its way back onto eBay; the later already has the tractor feed on order. What's strange is that there's zero information on the 6300. Not even manuals in paper or PDF format. There are no reviews, whether TH-cam or other. I've never experienced this before. It's as if I now own the only 6300 model in the world. There is but one article from the 1986 Chicago Tribune. The only nugget gleaned is that it uses a 96-character Diablo ribbon cartridge, and that it can print at a much faster 30 cps, as opposed to the 6100's 17 cps. They also say it's quieter, but a lot more expensive.
An advantage any 6100 owner has will be the incredibly detailed technical manual (online). It'll guide you through a complete strip down. There's also the easy to understand user manual.
The 6100 is lined with sound dampening foam. Old foam breaks down and eventually dissolves into a sticky mess. I wasn't looking forward to replacing , as that would involve a major dismantle. Hope my soon to arrive 6300 has none of that.
Yes, the 6100 is loud!
And I had one of these Juki 6100 printers as well. It used inexpensive IBM Selectric II cartridges. I'm in SF. That printer there could very well be mine.
Indeed it takes IBM Selectric II ribbon cartridges, which you can still order online at Staples by the way.
The even older TEC F10-40 is the fastest daisywheel printer I know of.
LOL, Its alive!
Damn, that rattled my fillings.
Haha, print quality is actually comparable to laser. Juki also made/makes industrial sewing machines.
is there anyway you can connect that printer to a modern windows 7 Please give me some advice
Through a USB to parallel port adapter or USB to serial I suspect. You'd have to find a driver. Don't know if it's still in the Windows 7 default drivers, should be one of the most basic drivers. I just checked on XP, and it's still there for the parallel port: just choose the Generic/Text Only.
+Samoh Kul Works plenty fine for me with a USB adapter. See here th-cam.com/video/XEPETpnZywA/w-d-xo.html. I tried it under WinXP, but it should work just as well under Windows 7.
it sounds like a machine gun
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Noisey, May get this tax FREE weekend a B&W Laser Printer and should be very quit. And get one to plug into the 8 Port Gigabyte Switch, for have the Wi-Fi turned off ! Thankyou for another great video, tjl Sent by Win7Pro64 w/ADSL
Laser writer? Gigabyte switch? I am afraid these weren't invented yet in the early 1980's! And try to connect a laser printer to a 1970 pre-PC era HP computer ;-). Thanks for being a dedicated follower Tim.