Wow! My first hard drive was 32MB. And my first modem 1200 baud. Bought the Compaq 8086 with only 2 floppies to afford the IBM Proprinter

... no, but now I want to hear the songs performed on proprinter + 3.5" floppy drive

I bought the dual 5.25" floppy version to start, to have enough money for an IBM ProPrinter for output.

The machine was great and I spent many hours on programming, databases, word processing and more. It was upgraded eventually to a 30MB RLL hard disk and an added 720k 3.5" floppy."

Yep-the KX-P1124 was a real popular 24-pin printer. NEC, Okidata, Epson, and C. Itoh were the big Japanese dot matrix printer companies, while Texas Instruments made the TI-810 and the IBM Proprinter were the US 9-pin printers of the day. HP had their first Deskjet in the mid 1980s…

Ebay item sold: semi pro Printer Epson Workforce wf-2630 (like new with factory seals)
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My first office as an Assistant Professor at #WilliamWoods. Can you guess it has an equestrian program? Vintage PC and Proprinter!

Ebay item sold: semi pro Printer Epson Workforce wf-2630 (like new with factory seals)
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I better plug in the old Proprinter and see if I can find enough fanfold paper

1986 Leading Edge Model D?, 640k RAM, dual 5.25, VGA, color monitor, 8-pin IBM Proprinter
~$4600. Bought with 1k from my grandpa, balance was paper route money. I was 12.

@tomjennings Yeah, the primary reason why I'm looking at this, is I have one kicking around in a cupboard. I can hack it around to get a printer I can sit in the caravan and have it logging everything on paper, running from the batteries in the […]

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