Re: What model Apple II did your school have?

["Mark Cummings" <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au>]

> I don't think we ever had a colour monitor on any of the Apple II
> machines - we started out with a 9" black and white monitor around
> 1980-81 and migrated to 12" green monochrome monitors for the rest of
> the time.  I recall two printers - one was an Epson wide carriage
> (something like an MX80) and I forget the other one.  No other
> peripherals of note.

I really loved those square B/W monitors that fit along side two vertically
stacked 5.25" Drives (the old ones). I'd still like to get my hands on one
for one of my IIes one day, even though I have enough green screens.

the wide carriage EPSON is an MX-100, I still have mine and bought it when
it was first released in Oz, it is a Type-III and cost me about $1300AU at
the time. The MX-80 is the 8" version. funny how prices have plummeted on
DMPs. I still use them and find them heaps cheaper to run and preferable
over Inkjet or Lasers for program development where long listings are
required. I now use two 13.6" 24pin Epsons which I picked up for $5 a piece
and the print quality is superb. One is on my PC side and the other on the
Mac/Apple 2 side. I was lucky enough to get a Appletalk interface for one of
them off e-bay for $5.

Mark