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- From: brmcf@utkux4.utcc.utk.edu (Bruce McFarling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Extended MPS-801 ribbon
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 22:50:22 GMT
- Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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- >I don't believe I'm reading this...an MPS 801? Get a new printer dude! But,
- >I guess anyone who won't spend $2.00 on a new ribbon probably would find it
- >difficult to spring even $150 for a low end new printer that was far superior
- >in every respect to an 801. Ever wonder why Commodore is ridiculed for
- >serious work? Ever seen the output from an MPS 80X?
-
- (A) Ever seen the output from the thermal printer for the IBM
- PC-Jr.? I have, because I bought one with a converter to run off the C64
- serial daisychain. Ever wonder why IBM is ridiculed for serious work?
- ... hmmmm, I wonder how well that line of reasoning works.
- (B) In the late 80's, when I had graduated to a daisywheel for the
- Commodore that cost less than $150 -- many home computers still had 24 pin
- dot matrix printers -- when I said I printed something up at home on my
- Commodore, I was often asked 'how do you run a laser printer off of the
- Commodore?'
- What works, works, and the cheaper the better!
-
- Virtually,
-
-
- --
- Bruce McFarling, Knoxville
- brmcf@utkux.utk.edu
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