On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:13:29 -0400, Wes
wrote the following:
"Bill Noble" wrote:
my brother's laserjet IIIP just died - anyone still use those? it has a
good 92275A toner cartridge (just refilled), and I would expect all the
electronics except the power supply to be good - so if you need anything
drop me a note - I've tossed the case and stuff, just kept the boards and
fuser, but recycling doesn't get picked up until Monday if you want a
plastic part
email me at the address shown on my web site below - pretty much pay
shipping and whatever you need is yours - I put a few things on ebay because
they seemed like they might have a chance:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=320563193712
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=320563192378
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=300447411309
Printers sure have lost value. I have two panasonic dot matrix printers in the garage.
The wide one is likely going into dumpster this afternoon after I remove the stepper
motor.
I remember Dad printing copies of the chapters of his WWII book (_To
Rule the Sky_ by Louis Jaques, Jr and William D. Leet) on the noisy
damned dot matrix computer. Later, when I owned them, they were just
as bloody noisy, printouts were ugly, paper was a pain, etc. I'm sure
glad technology progressed there.
I remember paying something like 424.00 for it back when 424.00 was real money.
That's more than I paid for my Samsung CLP-600N color laser printer.
It was $400, but there was a $200 rebate at the time. Toner refills
will cost me half that in a couple years. I figured I could spend
twice that in a year doing it with an inkjet. I hate those damned
things. One leaked all over my floorboard once, then got me and my
shop floor as I removed it. Feh!
My HP 5p is still kickin' 12 years later.
The 8 1/2" wide version is going to live a while longer since I have a serial interface
for it that I've had for about 15 years and never installed. It might find a use or not.
Either way, smaller storage footprint.
For the last few years, anything I wanted to print, I send to pdf creator which acts as a
print device for me. As long as I can display a document on a screen, it tends to get the
job done for me now.
ICK!
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels,
throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions,
without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act
with cheerfulness. -- Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711