30 Dec
2005
30 Dec
'05
1:39 p.m.
Richard wrote:
Anyone have either of these in their collection?
The former seemed fairly rare even in its day, while the latter was
mass produced yet I seem to never see it listed on anyone's collection
web page.
I think I have an Epson FX-80 printer somewhere in a cabinet with a
busted tractor feed mechanism on one side.
The University of Mo used them at all the main campus. They were
available for some
time on the scrap market around there. I saw some here in Los Angeles
at one time, but
they are not too popular because I believe they used custom type balls,
not the standard
typewriter ones. Or at least when I was attending UMR, none of the
typewriters would
use the 2741 type balls, probably by design.
I used to have some FX-80's but got rid of it with some micro computer
purge in the
80's because I used other printers at the time.
Never thought of it for collection purposes.
Jim