Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 16:20:13 -0500 Reply-to: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu From: Isaac Davis <idavis(a)comland.com> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Printers

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 relatively slow, but considering it had to make about 9 passes to form a row of characters it did pretty well. I can still remember the burning smell everytime you would print something out. It was really a neat little printer, and I can't for the life of me figure out why we got rid of it. I still have the driver disk for it, but the actual name of the thing escapes me right now. Wait a minute, it was an Olivetti, but I can't remember the model. The coolest part was turning the lights off when it was printing and watching the sparks fly across the paper as it printed. That's a printer I would like to have again. Isaac Davis | Don't throw out that old computer, idavis(a)comland.com | check out the Classic Computer Rescue List - indavis(a)juno.com | http://www.comland.com/~idavis/classic/classic.html