Archival storage

[Bob Bradlee]

Some where around the cave I have a timex/sincair printer
my dad brought back from england that used the aluminized paper.

It never got FCC approval because as the aluminized paper came out 
as it printed it became a very slow sweep wide band spark gap 
transmitter that blew any chance of getting type acceptance here in the 
states. It connected to the back of a timex 1000.

I have a second example in a rusrack chart recorder where a sharp
point scratched or more like pecked the surface away without using 
a spark. It did meet the type acceptance :)

Bob Bradlee

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:01:16 -0400, James Fogg wrote:

>> Back when small printers were hard to come by, there was at 
>> least one technology that used a "paper' made of a black 
>> layer on a paper substrate covered by a very thin layer of 
>> aluminum.  The printer burned through the aluminum, leaving 
>> the black spots exposed.  Oddly enough, this sounds like a 
>> fiarly permanent process.  Was the stuff called 
>> "electrographic" paper?

>This might be Readex Microprint technology. I've never seen an example
>of Readex output, although the company is a few miles from me and used
>to be a microfiche customer. I do know they got significant storage
>reduction compared to paper.