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Old Printers, Part 1B

The problem with the ribbons was bugging me so I got up in the night and went to see what I could see. I took the ribbon that was in the printer out of the printer and tried reseating it. 

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Old Printers, Part 1A

I received my Apple //c printer cable today along with two new ribbons. I wasn’t able to connect the printer to the //c yet, but I did manage to replace the ribbon and try a test page. The printer went

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Online Shopping

As you may have noticed, I shop online quite a bit.  With the older machines, you almost have to.  If you have also, you may have run into something I’m guilty of.  I sometimes miss important details in the ad.

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Old Printers

Today, I received the ImageWriter II, that I bought on eBay.  It arrived, well packed, with no cables or cords as it was described online. I dug out a power cord that would fit it and plugged it in. It

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Stuff

There used to be a store that we drove by up the coast a bit called Stuff.  I always thought that was a cool name for a store. Sunday, I made the winning bid on an Imagewriter II printer.  I

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Daily Apple

I intend to use this space to post on a daily basis about Apple II computers. I bought my first Apple Computer on December 29 of 1984.  It was an Apple //c and came with a 9″ monitor and stand, a

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