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[Troglodite at aol.com]

Ah yes, the LA-36. I still have one and it still works. A real workhorse,  
but slow as all getout. In addition, it was a 7-pin dot matrix, which had no  
descenders for lower case. (Example, p,q,y, etc. were all raised  slightly.)
 
A company named Datasouth started their business by making a replacement  
logic board for the LA-36, that sped it up by a factor of four, and added lots  
of extra features. Couldn't fix the basic font though.
 
I drag mine out once in a while just to hear that nostalgic high speed dot  
matrix sound. zzzzzzzzzzt! zzzzzzzzzt!
 
 
In a message dated 7/6/05 8:45:10 AM Central Daylight Time, wb8rcr at arrl.net  
writes:

Much of the early interest in the Internet was among DEC/Unix  types.  Their 
most popular terminal back in the days was the Decwriter  LA-36, which was 
introduced in 1974 and supported upper and lower  case.