Re: Imagewriter ll Woes

[et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)]

NDeveau (ndeveau@applelinks.nut) writes:
> In article <c35aut$ev2$1@acme.gcfn.org>, dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff
> Jr) wrote:
> 
> "
>> Unless, of course, you are at your local office supply store trying to
>> find tractor-feed paper and IW-II color ribbons...  8-)
>> 
>> --Dave Althoff, Jr."
> 
> My local Paper Trail store usually has tractor feed paper in stock
> and can order in an IWII cartridge in a couple of days,including color
> last time I tried :)
> 
I was able to still get form-feed paper at a big stationary chain
store here the last time I needed it, which was about three years ago.
It's the same place where I bought my last box of DD 3.5" floppies,
though that was much longer ago and I haven't checked lately.  I know
I bought Imagewriter ribbons there too, until I found some in the garbage
that kept me going until I put the Imagewriter in storage.  If I needed
any of these things, I'd check there first.  Maybe not as cheap as when
these were common items, but maybe a likely place to find them at least.

The Rotary Club here has a "garage sale" each spring, selling donated
items.  Inevitably, there is a box of form-feed paper for sale at some
good price.  People buy it, then don't use nearly as much as they expected,
and then move onto a sheet feed paper (read inkjet, or maybe laser printer),
and so they donate it.  I'd look to Salvation Army type stores, school rummage
sales (though oddly around there, some good ones have stopped doing those)
and even garage sales (where you'll find the Imagewriters and ribbons to
go with them).

    Michael