they did have a small copier coming in on trade the following week. If I liked, she would give me first shot at it. It would be selling for $800.
It turned out to be the little Toshiba I liked — in an older-model case they had made for 3M. It was not quite as cute, but it worked equally well — and for half the price. I took it home for a week’s trial — dealers are much more liberal about loaning used machines. It’s been an indispensable part of my office ever since. I currently make between 1,000 and 2,000 copies per month.