18 Apr
2013
18 Apr
'13
4:05 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: got my dot-matrix printer
Somewere in my store I still have a Logabax 9 pin tractor feed I bourght in
the 80's, all metal ( and lots of it) largs, heavy and noisey, used it for
over 20 years till it started to chew ribbons. Z80 based, i recall I patched
it for lower case, they had kindly left room in the eprom to extend the
lookup table.
DaveH
Those are good printers. Those and epsons were good consumer grade
printers. Citizen on the other hand... Ugh!
I'll stick to my pair of Sanders printers. The 12/7 is built liek a tank.
All metal, even the casing. I think the only plastic bits other than
electricla insuators (conencotr/switch housings, etc) are the PTFE slidew
bearings for the carriage.
Teh 700 is perhaps not _quite_ so solid. It's a Daiblo 630 chassis fitted
with a dot matrix head. And the cover is plastic. But it's still a lot
better than soem I could name.
Pity there's no way yto print graphics on them.
-tony