[SATLUG] OT: some dot matrix printers for auction

[Charles Hogan]

Not interested in the machines, but thought I would add to this post a 
little.

The Oki 320's are great little printers.  They are still in production, 
so parts and ribbons aren't a problem to find.

David Kowis wrote:
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> In order to help garner proceeds for my Linux distribution, Source Mage,
> a good friend of mine is going to auction off some Dot-Matrix printers.
> He lives out in San Angelo, which isn't too terribly far, but it would
> be a day's trip. This is, however a great way to get a dot-matrix
> printer on the cheap :)
> 
> <snip>
> I have several (close to ten, I think) Okidata Microline320 printers,
> and as far as I know, they all work, including a used ribbon.  They use
> standard 8.5" x 11" continuous feed paper.  As far as I know, they all
> work and the only problems that would be present would be the yellowing
> of the plastic (i.e. no broken parts or missing pieces).  The only real
> use for them that I could think of would be for printing off man pages
> and scripts and junk.
> 
> What I would like to do first is auction them off to the highest
> bidders.  The proceeds will then be donated to SMGL.  I'm a broke
> college student, which means I don't have any money, so I'd also ask
> buyers to pay for the shipping in addition to whatever they're donating
> to SMGL.  About the only expense I have to spare on this would be some
> weekend time and some gas to drive to The UPS Store (or wherever I need
> to go to ship a printer to a buyer).
> </snip>
> 
> You can contact Matthew Clark at  matthewclark at inlesserterms.net .
> Mention that you're interested in the printers and I'm sure he'll work
> out the details.
> 
> Just thought you guys might be interested in this, since at one point I
> was, and I still have my 32-pin wide carrage Dot Matrix printer ;)
> - --
> David Kowis
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