Re: Why is this auction so high?

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@nospam.net>]

No, it is an Apple Scribe- a thermal printer.  Actually prints very nicely
and quietly.  The ribbons (at least the black ones) are available.  The
color ribbons seem to be available only as new old stock..

 I have one here on my desk.  It is more compact than an Imagewriter.

Frank



"Vince Briel" <vbrielnospamme@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I'm not sure . Looks like a dot matrix printer to me.
>
> "Bill Garber" <willy4SPAM6pa@comXcast.net> wrote in message
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> > "Vince Briel" <vbrielnospamme@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> > > Your right it's not a thermal printer. I looked at it wrong. Yet
still,
> > I've
> > > seen good IIc's go for $15, maybe $25 with a monitor. It's not a IIc+
> > > afterall.
> >
> > Then how do you explain the pic of the label of a
> > Thermal printer in the description?
> >
> > Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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> > > "Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.dyndns.org> wrote in message
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> > > > In article <PKgdb.442373$Oz4.248347@rwcrnsc54>,
> > > > Vince Briel <vbrielnospamme@comcast.net> wrote:
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> > >
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>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2754751507&category=4610
> > > > >
> > > > >Is it the thermal printer?
> > > >
> > > > What thermal printer?  It has an Imagewriter bundled with it...a
9-pin
> > > > dot-matrix printer.
> > > >
> > > > People who don't know better are what's responsible for the high
> price.
> > > It
> > > > also doesn't hurt that the description uses "vintage" three times to
> > > > describe what sounds like a fairly ordinary system--probably just
> 128K,
> > > the
> > > > 9" "ET" monitor, and the printer, with no goodies like extra memory
or
> a
> > > > hard drive (I could see one of Chinook's SmartPort hard drives
getting
> > bid
> > > > up fairly high all by itself).
> > > >
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