Free Epson JX-80 Color Printer & Summagraphics graphics tablet for Z100 in Ann Arbor, MI

These are free for the cost of shipping from Ann Arbor, MI. Please contact me off list if interested, and I'll supply the owners email address. Bill ? Your computer will do far more than you ever expected it to, and that won't be enough. Pournelle's First Law Dear Bill, Way back in February you put in a bid on my Z100. As you no doubt surmised, you were outbid and the Z100 went to a collector out in California. For your information, the winning bid was $350 and that was just for the computer and monitor. Looking over my basement recently I came across the two other items that were part of my Z100 setup, namely the JX-80 printer and the Summagraphics graphics tablet. These are boxed up in their original cartons, complete with documentation and ready to ship. You didn't get my Z100, but I thought you might want these other beautiful vintage items, still in good working order. You can have them for the cost of UPS shipment. The JX-80, boxed up, weighs about 25 lb. The tablet, boxed up, weighs about 10 lb. I'm in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which is about a 5 hour drive from Washington, PA. (Shipping should be less than $20). If you ever get your hands on a working Z100 I'd be glad to send you my Blokpix software at no charge. I quote here below the text of the description I sent out to you about this equipment. ------------------------------------------------------ Additional hardware supported by Blokpix is a Summagraphics graphics tablet with a 2-button stylus and a 4-button cursor. Attaches to the serial port. The active surface of the tablet is 12" x 12". Also an Epson JX-80 color dot matrix printer, which we used to print out our designs. Attaches to the parallel port. I still have a few unused 4-color ribbons for this printer, but they may well be dried out by now. Such ribbons can be reinked. There are a couple of places that do this kind of reinking. Epson no longer makes the ribbons, but you can still get black ribbons that work on it. These are for MX-80 or FX-80 machines. I'll be glad to throw in a handsome custom-designed lucite printer stand. This is a good workhorse 9-pin printer, still working fine. The most interesting software is that which I wrote myself. I have a graphics program called Blokpix that my wife and I used for years to design repeating designs for the fabric, apparel and wallpaper industries. You can have this. I even wrote a manual for it. I also wrote a demo program that displays graphic designs until you stop it. It can be controlled by writing a script. You can have this program along with the script I wrote for showing off our designs at trade shows. This makes a nice display. ------------------------------------------------------ If you want the lucite stand, that will have to go in a separate box. It would add another dollar or two to the shipping cost. Bill, please let me know soon if you would like these items. If not, they will go to the local recycling center where they will be cannibalized for valuable metals. At least they will not go into the landfill. But I'd much rather see their working lives extended by a caring collector like you. Bob