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From: Duncan Snowden <duncan_s@talktalk.net>
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Subject: Re: Printers on a Speccy +2
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On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 11:34:53 -0800 (PST)
losborne74@gmail.com wrote:

> I've just had a nose around on Google and it turns out that OKI still
> make new dot matrix printers with an RS232 interface, and Epson LQ
> compatibility.

By the way, I took your word for it before, but I just had a look
myself. Blimey.

http://www.oki.com/uk/printing/products/dotmatrix/9pin/index.html
http://www.oki.com/uk/printing/products/dotmatrix/24pin/index.html

It's like discovering someone still making gas lamps, or radiograms,
or black-and-white tellies.

And "Maximum copies"? Does that mean what I think it means? *Carbon*? I
repeat: gas lamps, radiograms, and blimey.

-- 
Duncan Snowden.