Printers - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Jun 1997

At 04:20 PM 6/12/97 -0500, you wrote:
...
 Here's one for the printer books.  I had a printer
for my atari 800 that we
order out of the DAK catalog.  It used a little cartridge shaped like a
bullet with a contact on the end.  The printer would fire a spark and
actually burn the dots onto the paper to make the characters.  It was 
Actually, it was an InkJet...   I think I still have some of the ink
cartridges around somewhere.  (I was paranoid that I might not be able to
find more when I ran out, so I bought a whole bunch.)  The sparks were to
convince the ink to jump onto the page, I think.

...
 me right now.  Wait a minute, it was an Olivetti, but I
can't remember the 
It was indeed an Olivetti, but I too have forgotten the model.

...
 would like to have again. 
Me too.  I remember demoing mine for ABACUS, the Atari Bay Area Computer
Users Society.  That thing is what made it possible for me to pass English
in college!  (I loathe the physical act of writing, so I never did any work,
until I could type it up on my 600xl (and later, 800) and print it out.)  

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