OT: Tandy DMP-2100 tractor needed

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005, Brian K. White wrote:
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Bob Stockler" <bob at trebor.iglou.com>
>To: <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 6:08 PM
>Subject: Re: OT: Tandy DMP-2100 tractor needed
>
>>On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:47:37PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
....
>>Come to think of it, I have a sheet feeder in a closet somewhere
>>here that may be for a DMP2100P, but I think it's for a DWP-510.
>>
>>I still use both of those Tandy printers (I don't print much).
>
>I was about to ask jokingly who else in your house you hated so much that 
>you use a daisy wheel printer printer in the same building with them.

I had a customer who swore by the Radio Shack Daisy Wheel II printers
because they were the only thing he could find that would print his
insurance contracts that were on 6-part forms.

When I started working for Radio Shack in October 1980, the DWII sold for
about $2,000, and was far faster than the Diablos and most other Daisy
Wheels available then because of it's smart carriage control.  I figured
the DWII would be the weak link in word processing systems, but they were
absolute tanks, with the only maintenance problems being the daisy wheel
itself which was prone to have a character break off (``R'' if I remember
correctly).  The only one I ever had to take to repair had a main board
failure when somebody dropped a box of paper clips into the guts of the
machine, shorting out something inside.

...

Bill
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