[Coco] DMP-106 Pinter sighted

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 23:38, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>Went back to the Goodwill shop today and checked the price on their
> Tandy DMP-106 printer.  Seven bucks.   Original box and styrofoam 
> packing blocks, no cable, no manual.  Has 4-pin Coco serial and
> standard  parallel inputs.
>
>No I didn't want it, but I thought folks who keep track of such things
>  might like to know what a vintage Coco printer sells for.  ISTR I
> sold off  my reliable DMP-105 at a Fest way back when.
>--Mike K.

Ouch, Mike, thats a no-no, mentioning the DMP-105 and reliable in the 
same sentence.  Tsk Tsk

For hobby use maybe, but it was all worn out in less than a month doing 
telephone logging, long before the first 5000 sheet box of 16 lb 
tractor feed and the fifth ribbon was used up.  Its major problem was a 
very puny head drive stepper, followed by a propensity for the ribbons 
to freeze up, caused by an incompatibility between the inks and the 
plastic it was molded from.  They would litterally weld the knob into 
the houseing like sewer pipe cement.  I tried many variations of 
lubrication on those rails trying to make it work for 3 days running 
after the first 2 weeks. After a couple of months and 2 of them, we 
bought an oki, fed it a ribbon a month and forgot about it till that 
phone pbx was retired.  When we pulled it out into good light, I 
couldn't believe the amount of paper dust clogging up the works in that 
oki, but its only real problem was worn out head.  Paper still fed thru 
it, and if you could read around the broken/missing pins it was fine.

OTOH, that was a nearly $400 printer too. It ate about 30 of those 5000 
sheet boxes of tractor feed in its life.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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