On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:31:00 +0000 Tim Lamb wrote :
I confidently expected dot matrix printers to be dirt cheap by
now and half promised one as a birthday pressie. 150ukp they
must be joking!

Before I emigrated our little-used Epson LQ570+ fetched a whole
£2 on eBay. A manual for a Commodore PET floppy drive got £7!

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Tony Bryer, 'Software to build on' from Greentram
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