30 Dec
2005
30 Dec
'05
12:33 a.m.
Anyone have either of these in their collection?
The former seemed fairly rare even in its day, while the latter was
mass produced yet I seem to never see it listed on anyone's collection
web page.
I think I have an Epson FX-80 printer somewhere in a cabinet with a
busted tractor feed mechanism on one side.
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30 Dec
30 Dec
1:39 p.m.
Richard wrote:
Anyone have either of these in their collection?
The former seemed fairly rare even in its day, while the latter was
mass produced yet I seem to never see it listed on anyone's collection
web page.
I think I have an Epson FX-80 printer somewhere in a cabinet with a
busted tractor feed mechanism on one side.
The University of Mo used them at all the main campus. They were
available for some
time on the scrap market around there. I saw some here in Los Angeles
at one time, but
they are not too popular because I believe they used custom type balls,
not the standard
typewriter ones. Or at least when I was attending UMR, none of the
typewriters would
use the 2741 type balls, probably by design.
I used to have some FX-80's but got rid of it with some micro computer
purge in the
80's because I used other printers at the time.
Never thought of it for collection purposes.
Jim
1:55 p.m.
In article <43B5A92A.4050607 at msm.umr.edu>,
jim stephens <jwstephens at msm.umr.edu> writes:
[IBM 2741s] are not too popular because I believe they
used custom
type balls, not the standard typewriter ones. [...]
There are multiple kinds of type balls. The IBM 2741 used ones that
were interchangeable with certain models of typewriter (I know because
I used to swap the type balls around between the printer and
typewriters to get the type I wanted :-).
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