the non-existence of printer collectors - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Jan 2008

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  1) "interesting" printers are large and
power hungry and frankly hard
 to find in isolation.  When they are around, they are usually part of
 a large mainframe/minicomputer package and you can't get *just* the
 printer.
  Those old line printers had such a nice impressive sound. At least looking 
back and when you will be doing short printouts on a classic computer. 
When you had to listen to it all day not so good.

Way back in college they had a 9-1/2 DEC line printer drum/band on an old
PDP-11. That would be about the right size to make a nice addition to
my collection. Never have seen one like that since then and don't know
what the model was. Whenever I find a DECwriter II (or unlikely I) within a
reasonable drive I will add one of them to my collection.

Do have a DEC dasywheel, a couple of dot matrix PC printers, and an ASR-33