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    From Sean Dennis@618:618/1 to All on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 23:27:28
    Hi everyone,

    I am looking to find an unused 9-pin (or higher) dot matrix printer for my
    BBS. I had a beautiful 24-pin, 132-column Panasonic KX-P2624 dot matrix printer that I paid $5 for from a thrift store in Marietta, Georgia in 2007
    but lost it when I couldn't afford to pay my storage room in 2020 and lost a lot of good hardware (and a lot of rare OS/2 software) that way. :(

    I'd like to find an IBM, Okidata, or Panasonic printer. I looked on eBay
    and Lord, the overly high prices made me spit out my soda. Then Amazon was worse: USD$295 for a used OKI Microline 320 Elite? For that price, I could
    buy a new one.

    The reason for a dot-matrix is compatibility with native OS/2 printer
    drivers (ArcaOS has CUPS but it is an out-of-date version and to build a PPD file for my Brother inkjet is just too much) and no inkjet ink to dry up. I know how to resurrect an old dot-matrix printer ribbon using WD-40 and a
    warm oven. If that isn't old school, I don't know what is. Plus I mainly print only text such as netmails, manual pages, and the like occasionally.

    Once I get Devaun Linux set up on my personal box (Any Day Now[tm]), I could set up a lpd server but that is more work than I want to do. <G>

    If anyone can help me out, I'd appreciate it. You can netmail me directly.

    Thanks,
    Sean

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  • From Jas Hud@618:250/1 to Sean Dennis on Wednesday, November 29, 2023 23:27:31
    To: Sean Dennis
    Re: 9-pin dot matrix
    By: Sean Dennis to All on Wed Nov 29 2023 11:27 pm


    I'd like to find an IBM, Okidata, or Panasonic printer. I looked on eBay and Lord, the overly high prices made me spit out my soda. Then Amazon was worse: USD$295 for a used OKI Microline 320 Elite? For that price, I could buy a new one.


    the reason why they cost so much is they last forever and they're cheap on ink. they've had high prices like that for over 10 years.
    I wish i didn't toss mine, but they were a pain and taking up space.
    When i was picking up parts at a computer store in town and mentioned it had one the dude's eyes got big warned me to hold onto it.

    if anybody has a dotmatrix printer,hang onto it.
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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/1 to Jas Hud on Thursday, November 30, 2023 08:03:46
    if anybody has a dotmatrix printer,hang onto it.

    I saw a few printers (IBM dot matrix line printers on their own stand;
    massive and heavy printers) that were $10,000+ on eBay last night.

    Like I said earlier, I really regret not taking my old dot matrix home
    before I lost my storage room. I knew then I'd regret it.

    -- Sean

    P.S. There were a few reasonably priced printers but the sellers wanted
    just as much money for shipping.

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  • From Jas Hud@618:250/1 to Sean Dennis on Thursday, November 30, 2023 08:45:49
    To: Sean Dennis
    Re: 9-pin dot matrix
    By: Sean Dennis to Jas Hud on Thu Nov 30 2023 08:03 am

    From Newsgroup: micronet.comp

    if anybody has a dotmatrix printer,hang onto it.

    I saw a few printers (IBM dot matrix line printers on their own stand; massive and heavy printers) that were $10,000+ on eBay last night.

    Like I said earlier, I really regret not taking my old dot matrix home before I lost my storage room. I knew then I'd regret it.

    -- Sean

    P.S. There were a few reasonably priced printers but the sellers wanted just as much money for shipping.


    shipping is expensive if i you dont have a partnership with uspostal or ups.

    yeah i'm looking on ebay and the price of dotmatrix printers and shipping is nuts.
    they are even selling manuals for 16 bucks

    pcliquidations.com has some for 160 total.
    amazon has one for 200 bucks.

    remember when i said you should use a filter and be a cam girl? nows the time to run the scam!
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