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a collection of messages sent at Atari from 1983 to 1992.

The TEK

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I believe I've finally got the damn TEK que working again. I couldn't get it to
work with the custom hardware on Bert, so I hooked it up to one of the 386/PC's
we have running Unix (which doesn't require any custom hardware). Then I hacked
to bits the TEK symboint code forcing it to open a network connection to the
Unix system via TCP/IP and blasting your file to a daemon which is always
listening on the Unix system. After the file is sent to the printer the Unix
node sends a message back to Bert which in turn will send a message to your
terminal that the job has completed. As before, the job completed message only
means the file has been sent to the printer, it'll still take a few minutes for
it to actually print your file. 

Let me know if you have any trouble especially if your print doesn't
come out, but the system said it "completed".

ds
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Aug 29, 1989