15 Jan
2004
15 Jan
'04
5:27 p.m.
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Curt vendel wrote:
The 820's simple have a connector row from its
custom SIO interface to the
mech, so if you needed a new mech, you'd just pull it out and use it as is,
no mods.... Smart move on Atari's part back in 1980 as they needed
peripherals and why reinvent the wheel when all they had to do was make
their custom interface and us an off the shelf printer mech. As for the
825, its a all Centronic 737 inside, all Atari did was give it a new set of
Atari clothes :-)
That's pretty common, of course. Most IBM PC printers were just Epson's
rebadged. That practice still goes on today as well. Apple StyleWriters
are either Canon bubblejets or Epson or HP.
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