"It is interesting that the MX-80 was copied by several other printer
manufactures."
The first printer I owned, ca. 1983, was a BMC BX-80. This printer was
marketed as an "Epson Compatible", and for my purposes, it most certainly
was. Driven by C-64 via the Cardco Card/?+G interface, it was capable of
several standard text & imprint modes (draft, std, ital, ul, bold, etc),
the CBM keyboard graphics characters and bitmap graphic images.
It may also have printed custom C-64 character sets..?
In any event, that printer served me flawlessly for several years until I
moved on to bigger & better things. So who was BMC, anyway? I also happen
to own a nice little green-screen monitor with their brand on it. It's
clearly based on a B&W TV case & chassis, that lacks tuning, antenna
connections, speaker and so on - in favor of a single RCA composite input.
Monitor still works great, it's my go-to for old home computers.
On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 8:47 AM, dwight <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:
It is interesting that the MX-80 was copied by several
other
printer manufactures. For a while, the term MX-80 compatible
was an important selling feature.
The Canon Cat had configurations for many different Canon printers
built in, from daisy wheel to bubble jet. It had one extra configuration
called 'common printer' and guess which printer that is. The MX-80!
Dwight
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Scott Kevill <
scott at kevill.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 6:49:49 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Epson MX-80 Technical Manual?
Just wanted to say thanks for doing this scan (and of course all the other
great work you do), Al, the quality was fantastic.
For anyone else that didn't notice this (or forgot to check back), it's at:
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/epson/
printer/P80000001A_MX-80_Technical_Manual.pdf
And it's much more readable (especially the diagrams).
Scott.
On 06/11/2016, at 1:59 AM, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
A scan I did this morning will be up on bitsavers
by 13:00 PDT
On 11/5/16 9:36 AM, Dave Wade wrote:
> They said they were working on it..
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at
classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Keven
>> Miller
>> Sent: 05 November 2016 13:04
>> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>> Subject: Re: Epson MX-80 Technical Manual?
>>
>> I tried this link this morning (from Utah US) and got the manual.
>> So the link must have gotten fixed.
>>
>> I've placed here just in case:
>>
>>
http://www.3kranger.com/download/epson_-_mx-
>> 80_dot_matrix_printer_-_technical_manual.pdf
>>
>> Keven Miller
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Scott Kevill" <scott at kevill.com>
>> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
>> <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>> Sent: Sat 05 Nov 2016 01:24 AM
>> Subject: Re: Epson MX-80 Technical Manual?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 05/11/2016, at 4:29 AM, Eric Smith <spacewar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have a scan of the MX-80 Dot Matrix Printer Technical
>> Manual?
>>>
>>> It's apparently intended to be available here:
>>>
>>>
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/39747/Epson-MX-80-Dot-
>> Matrix-Printer-Technical-Manual/
>>> but I was unable to actually download it.