Thanks for the information Bob.

I haven't checked the LN03 works yet, and it might not since it's so old. I'm pleased to hear there's a good chance of running it from the Pi if it does though.

The university I worked at bought a pair of LN03's with a VAXcluster in 1987, and I had the job of setting them up back then under VMS. I'm pretty sure neither of them were "image" printers. We later bought an LPS17 I think, and a LPS32, much faster higher volume printers with duplexers. I didn't offer to take them home when they were phased out though :-)

I might have some supplies with the printer, but not much of anything, so it might be a short-lived experiment even if it does still print.

I need to check out the matrix printer as well, though I don't really have a use for it any more, and only one box of line-printer paper!