Mar 12, 2023
Today I did some furniture arranging, so behold my 1997 win98 rig and ALPS micro dry MD2010R from 1996. Both getting a full strip and clean with retrobrite and a custom external psu for the printer (the R is for ressurected)
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Today I did some furniture arranging, so behold my 1997 win98 rig and ALPS micro dry MD2010R from 1996. Both getting a full strip and clean with retrobrite and a custom external psu for the printer (the R is for ressurected)
I am most vexed with myself today. Yesterday I was almost done getting the ALPS 2010 finished and I went and plugged the power in backwards 😭 It must have got at least 24v up the earth line.
It still powers up but only if the print head cable is disconnected, otherwise it makes a faint angry hissing noise...I guess something is shorted.
I might be very lucky and its just a board component I've fried, but the print heads are delicate so it doesn't look good 😟
Retro pc time with a Power Mac 6320cd and ALPS2010S MicroDry printer.
Finally got this working! It was having a bad time failing to load ink but it’s finished now :D
Woo new project! I got a broken alps md1000 off eBay so I’m gonna try n fix it.
These are mid 90s 2d printers that use thermal wax ribbons to print rather than liquid ink. The big deal is they can do white and metallic colours and I’ve always had my eye on one for making custom decals.
Wish me luck I’m gonna need it >_<
Did some small fixing on the md2010pc. Gotta watch these ribbon cables! I took breaks and quit whilst ahead on this one. Looking at the scsi one I broke still hurts 😭
Advice about vintage Macs.
Lucky me scored another micro dry printer recently and it is a Mac one with a SCSI interface.
Drivers for this model don’t exist under windows, but it has some floppies with Mac drivers on and the internet tells me SCSI drivers for it are available on Linux.
So my options are to get a vintage Mac Power PC with some desktop publishing software and maybe a scanner.
The other option is a Linux PC with a scsi port, OR a windows PC with a scsi port running OS9 as a virtal machine.
Do any of my followers have any wisdom or advice? Thanks!