OT: Tandy DMP-2100 tractor needed

[Rod Caddy]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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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> 
Bill, I had one of those and you are right it was a tank.  I bought mine 
after it had been on lease for three years and I took it back into my 
store at Tandy.  I purchased the whole system and finally gave my 
printer away to a young preacher in seminary here in Fort Worth.
Still Working!

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