The MX-80 was a wonderful piece of hardware, all function. It was tractor fed but had a regular platen so you could line up letterhead with friction feed. No drama about low ink or something warming up or some bad encoding or another transfer failed. Bytes in, paper out!
We had an Apple II around 1980 and a friend helped us make a parallel cable for it.
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Ah, yes, the EPSON MX-80. Majestically noisy.
The MX-80 was a wonderful piece of hardware, all function. It was tractor fed but had a regular platen so you could line up letterhead with friction feed. No drama about low ink or something warming up or some bad encoding or another transfer failed. Bytes in, paper out!
We had an Apple II around 1980 and a friend helped us make a parallel cable for it.
But not as noisy as a daisy wheel. Those things sounded like machine gun fire.