Oldest machine you ever worked on

[CCS]

I believe the mid-80's , Sharp SF-900/901's and Sharp SF-750 /760

boy this was some crap to learn on, lol

[Venom]

I serviced a Gestetner ink duplicator that didn't have an ink pump. I think this was one like it:



I hated those ink duplicators...always had ink stained fingers.

[Tom]

Anyone remember the 3m VQC III or the canon np120 with the magazine finish?

[MR Bill]

Started with Saxon in 74. So Saxon C-500, Saxon B-12 was my first. Liquid roll feed paper copier.They had a Bond copier that I learded a year later. The Saxon PPC-1. Same as the Canon L-7 , Canon LP 70 mentioned. Man oh man, the good old days.

Mr Bill

[KenB]

Anyone remember the 3m VQC III or the canon np120 with the magazine finish?

I had a bunch of Canon NP120s out there.

For those not familiar (OK, almost everybody...), this was a cold fusing machine, that used about a zillion pounds of pressure to fuse the toner. In the process, it would also smooth the copy paper as well, so that's where the magazine finish comes from. When the copy passed between the rollers, it made a loud clunking sound, like something was horribly broken. As I recall, Canon called this a "clack". (Yeah, right...). Imagine the sound a heavy pair of steel-toed work boots would make if you put them in the drier.

One group that really liked the NP120, though, were engineers. Why? There was almost no shrinkage between the original and copy.

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

Savin 770 Liquid toner !!!!! AUGH!!!!!

I'm kind of curious how the liquid toner machines worked. I understand thoroughly the dry toner conecpt, but never knew how liquid toner worked.

[HenryT2]

Roughly the same a dry toner.

The coated paper ( sheet or on a roll ) was sent through a CORONA for the charge, then exposed by the light ( mirrors, not laser beams ) of the reflected image. Paper then goes through a liquid toner bath ( a clear petroleum based liquid with a vegetable based black ink ) , and then passes under a blower with heating elements to dry the paper with the image on it. COOL........HUH

AH the good ole days Don't miss them too much.

[KenB]

I grew up working on Canon liquid machines, mostly the NP-70/ L7, Canon's first machines, which first hit the US in 1974.

Talk about never having clean hands. Yick.

[kingpd@businessprints.net]

Roughly the same a dry toner.

The coated paper ( sheet or on a roll ) was sent through a CORONA for the charge, then exposed by the light ( mirrors, not laser beams ) of the reflected image. Paper then goes through a liquid toner bath ( a clear petroleum based liquid with a vegetable based black ink ) , and then passes under a blower with heating elements to dry the paper with the image on it. COOL........HUH

AH the good ole days Don't miss them too much.

Sounds interesting. A guy on the show House, MD drank liquid toner...

[osmani]

Worked on MITA DC121,B4 size copier with moving platen,Heat fixing looked like a big advantage then.

[RyanPacific]

I'm only 27 so I can't really speak on this but my boss had some memorable ones for everyone.
He says the oldest one he worked on was an Xerox 813 but here are some more old pieces of junk he worked on. Still have parts for some of them if anyone wants to buy some.

Minolta 1114
Savin 215
Xerox 625
Merit 400

[rrowens]

ibm card punch/reader

[hekotez]

Oldest machine i worked on... hummmm where to start... ahhh yes that magnificent cash register... what a piece for a museum... full mechanical till all made in WOOD!!!!!!... and i mean all... casing, keys, lever, gears... when i got to the client and saw it (i was thinking a "regular" till) my chin fell on the ground...
I became a carpenter for a day hahaha had to fabricate a couple new gears for it....
Worked on one Olivetti summa 24 lol what a calculator, have no idea the year 1970's or something, client treasured it like a relic...
Or maybe the Olivetti's hmm sorry cant remember the model maybe 1980's coolest calculator i've ever seen, the printer was basically a small carriage magnetically floating on a guide bar with a small graphite pencil... a high voltage discharge would spark from the pencil onto the roller behind the paper... leaving a dot of graphite in it, most silent and fastest calculator i've ever seen (would beat canon's bubble jet calcs any day)
All made and out of market before i was born =)
Oldest copiers... that would probably be canon's CLC series...

[JustManuals]

My ex-wife.

[Wild Bill]

Sharp SF-740/741...I used to set up SF-750's brand new...Im old : (