portable printing terminals

A Teletype Model 43 could be considered "portable", and to my recollection it used a 7x9 dot matrix printhead, which did lower case nicely. It also used "real" paper as opposed to the thermal stuff of the TI Silent 700's. It was definitely noisier than a Silent 700, but the 43 was very nice to use. I used one of these for a time a long time ago, and found it to be a really nice terminal for use on timesharing systems. Would love to find one today. I have a couple of TI Silent 700's in that have built-in acoustic couplers, and do lower case...except that the lower case is just a shrunken down version of the upper case character set. Readable, but definitely what you'd want to print out RUNOFF documents with. Plus, that thermal paper isn't very durable for long-term document storage. Rick Bensene The Old Calculator Web Museum http://oldcalculatormuseum.com