Re: Just had to share...

[mngb123@hotmail.com]

My IIc came bundled with the Scribe back in the mid 80s.  I believe it
is capable of color.  But the color ribbons costed a bomb.
Actually... so did the plain black ones.  Which was why I replaced it
with an Imagewriter II.



On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 17:20:05 +0000 (UTC), Stephen Shaw
<bottrawler@junkbuster.zzn.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 04:11:16 GMT, Scott Alfter wrote:
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>> In article <dcs5ju86cufaia75af092pmgacv64bcjed@4ax.com>,
>> The Mad Scribbler  <madscrib@geek.com> wrote:
>>>Thanks to eBay, I'll be coming into posession of 47(!) POUNDS of
>>>software and hardware for my Apple IIc.  The hardware is an
>>>ImageWriter printer, a couple of disk drives and a joystick.  The rest
>>>is all software and manuals.  I can't WAIT to get home from work
>>>tonight! ;-)
>>
>> Most of that 47 lbs. will be the printer...the Imagewriter is one heavy
>> beast. :-)
>>
>> (It'll keep on going forever, though...still have mine that was bought new
>> back in '85, but it hasn't been fired up in at least two or three years.
>> At least you can still find ribbons for them, which is more than you can
>> say for many printers of comparable age.  Try finding ribbons for a Scribe
>> (Apple's color thermal-transfer printer) sometime, for instance.)
>
>Colour? - I don't think the Scribe did colour. I don't remember ever seeing a
>colour 'ribbon' available for the Scribe.
>  
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