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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Atari 1029 printer
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <Jim_Johnson.061x@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 16:22:43 EST
- Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch
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- In a message dated Thu 30 Jul 92 12:32, Mfolivo@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (mark New
- wrote:
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- MN> I saw this at B&C Computervisions in Santa Clara, an Atari 1029
- MN> printer. It's a dot matrix printer, it looks like a C. Itoh
- MN> Prowriter (?) clone.
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- MN> Does anyone know anything about this printer?
-
- MN> As I recall, Atari never offered the 1029 in the US, I never saw it
- MN> in any literature, or saw it at Federated.
-
- MN> Was this an unreleased prototype, or a printer for the European
- MN> market?
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- MN> The 8 bit printers that I know that were released were the;
- MN> 820 40 column dot matrix
- MN> 822 40 column thermal, with plotting
- MN> 825 80 column parallel
- MN> 1020 color plotter
- MN> 1025 80 column SIO
- MN> XDM121 daisy wheel
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- There were also the following Atari 8bit printers:
- 1027 80 column letter quality (used something resembling a printing
- calculator for the print head and wouldn't print reliably on anything
- thicker than 15 pound paper)
- XMM801 80 column dot matrix adjustable tractor feed - mostly Epson
- compatible
- I owned both of these SIO printers.
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