[Coco] Thermal Roll Paper for TP-10

[Rogelio Perea]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:47 PM, gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

On Monday, December 20, 2010 03:43:08 pm Bruce W. Calkins did opine:
>
> > The only thing I've come up with would be to cut a  roll of thermal fax
> > machine paper to fit.  If you are lucky it will be 8-1/2" and you could
> > get two rolls out of it.  I never did get one, and it is probably just
> > as well, given the paper supply situation.
> >
> > Bruce W.
>
> Particularly since there is _nothing_ archival quality about that stuff.
> Cold snap maybe but a heat snap is far worse, time & light exposure also
> figure into it.  Its a great paper to print receipts on because the
> receiver
> of the receipt generally has a blank piece of paper in less than 6 months.
>

Still have a folder where I stored TP-10 printouts of some of my MC-10
programs, they have held rather well after 25 years but I doubt they will
survive another 25, some of them are showing paper discoloration and print
fade out, still readable though but not pretty.

The printouts I pasted them onto a standard letter size paper sheet (11" x
8.5"); with the width of the TP-10 just perfect to allow two columns per
sheet - some school assignments were turned in like so with the added step
of photocopying the paste job to have a less 'intrusive looking' document
handed out to the teacher.

Today the TP-10 sits on top of the monitor/TV attached to my 64k CoCo, handy
for the occasional hardcopy needs, someday I'll have room to set either the
DMP-106A or the DMP-130 printer that came into my equipment spread after the
TP-10. The CoCo desk is kind of crowded :-)


-- RP