On Saturday 04 February 2006 02:11 pm, Gene Ehrich wrote:
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=8761537223&ssPageN
ame=STRK:MESE:IT>Juki 6100 printer for
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ame=STRK:MESE:IT>Commodore
Is there much interest in this stuff at all? I've scrapped some of that sort
As a primarily hardware-based person, I do find _some_ old peripherals to
be as interesting as old computers. I think the things that are likely to
be of interest are :
1) Peripherals that were made by the same company as the processor. Many
PDP11 hackers have at least some DEC disk drives and terminals on their
machines, dittoe HP minicomputer collectors, etc.
2) Peripherals that had interesting design consturctional features. An
example that I have (and have jsut restored) is the HP7245
printer/plotter. It's a combined dot-matrix thermal printer _and_ a
thermal vector plotter. I know of no other machine like it (and being an
HP, it's beautifully made). Other examples would be the Versatec V80
electrostatic printers, Sanders letter-quality dot matrix printers, etc
3) Peripherals that are historically significant. I'll let others suggest
models here, since this is not my main interest.
Alas third party printers are unlikely to be of much interest since they
are large and don't seem to have much special about them.
-tony