{"id":512,"date":"2008-10-27T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2013-10-31T08:05:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T13:05:24","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-satanic-printing-rites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/512\/retro-scan-of-the-week-satanic-printing-rites","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Satanic Printing Rites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/qantex_devil_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/qantex_devil_small.jpg\" alt=\"Qantex - Interface Age 1983\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>(click for full advertisement)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since Friday is Halloween, I&#8217;ve pulled out this scary, 25 year-old ad from <em>Interface Age<\/em>.  The Devil doesn&#8217;t look too happy with Qantex&#8217;s latest offering &#8212; the joke being that Qantex&#8217;s new model is compatible with Diablo printers.  If any of you attend a costume party this Halloween, feel free to dress as the <em>Qantex Devil<\/em>.  Be sure to take pictures.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Interface Age, November 1983 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> Remember dot-matrix, impact, and daisy-wheel printers?  How about thermal, bubble-jet, ink-jet, and laser?  Tell us about your earliest printer experiences, good and bad.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click for full advertisement) Since Friday is Halloween, I&#8217;ve pulled out this scary, 25 year-old ad from Interface Age. The Devil doesn&#8217;t look too happy with Qantex&#8217;s latest offering &#8212; the joke being that Qantex&#8217;s new model is compatible with Diablo printers. If any of you attend a costume party this Halloween, feel free to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,27,26,10],"tags":[139,150,640,643,641,255,195,636,638,637,639,60,642],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-139","tag-advertisement","tag-daisy-wheel","tag-devil","tag-diablo","tag-halloween","tag-interface-age","tag-north-atlantic","tag-printers","tag-qantex","tag-qantex-7040","tag-retro-scan","tag-satan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}