Marlith wrote:I was wondering if there is any way to validate these sort of items.
MShipley88 wrote:Tournament modules...aren't they especially vulnerable to photocopying? Weren't they photocopies to begin with?
MShipley88 wrote:Tournament modules...aren't they especially vulnerable to photocopying? Weren't they photocopies to begin with?Mark
My R4 prepub was sheet-fed.
AdderMcOne wrote:does that put a 'print' difference on them then - 1st print are the computer sheetfeed printed ones, and the copies are 'later' prints? Or should we still count them all as the same print for the sake of simplicity. (Even though the computer print out ones sound like the ones less likely to be faked)
bombadil wrote:Has anyone asked for the seller's name?
ExTSR wrote:AdderMcOne wrote:does that put a 'print' difference on them then - 1st print are the computer sheetfeed printed ones, and the copies are 'later' prints? Or should we still count them all as the same print for the sake of simplicity. (Even though the computer print out ones sound like the ones less likely to be faked)When TSR Hobbies upgraded their antique Burroughs computer (circa 1979) to the HP-3000 mainframe (early '80s), they also started with a dot-matrix low-quality output "line printer" for most stuff (with holes along the sides of the continuous-feed paper). Some of us quickly acquired office printers as well, mostly to ease the load on the big guy. The office style had font wheels, similar to typewriters ("character printers"), producing cleaner copy than dot-matrix. However, they took a lot longer to print, and the ribbons cost more, and we were encouraged to use them for important things only. (Pencil-counter anal types at the top. Hello, Kevin B.)For the earliest RPGA tournaments we used the line printer output. Sometimes we had time to remove the feed strips from the sides and/or separate the pages, leaving 'fuzzy' edges (detached along the perforations). imho, items such perf'd edges are 99% certain to be genuine. (Some of you have bought such items from me, and I thank you again for your spirited bidding.)However, as the RPGA grew, line-printer output of every copy needed became too demanding for the printer. There were, after all, other needs for it. We ran 'em at night in batches at first but even that was too demanding on the limited resources (everybody started batching their big jobs at night). Thus, the RPGA was ordered at some point to make just one or two printout copies and photocopy the rest. Most '80s tourneys are thus of this type, often with the feeder holes still visible along one side of the copy.Becoming irritated at the poor quality (dot-matrix output photocopied by inferior machines set up to minimize ink usage, thanks again to the anal penny-pinchers), the RPGA also printed tournaments on their character printer (mid-'80s) to improve readability.That help?
MShipley88 wrote:Tough for anyone who grew up in the late 80's and 90's that the 80's started with almost nothing in the way of computer technology.
MShipley88 wrote:I remember reading that TSR had a computer that held of lot of their material on disks...huge floppy disks...and that the old machine broke, leaving them with no way of accessing the old computer disks.