On 05/03/2017 15:02, John Rumm wrote:
On 05/03/2017 13:10, Max Demian wrote:
On 05/03/2017 01:32, John Rumm wrote:
On 04/03/2017 12:23, Max Demian wrote:
On 04/03/2017 11:07, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Reminds me of the BBC Micro/Computer Literacy Project: we were going
to use our home computers to do the accounts, control central
heating
and goodness knows what else: a Model B needed a lot of extras even
to do a bit of word processing.)

It didn't need any extras for that.

Except a printer, I suppose.

The printer (and lead) was the easy part. (You could get "near letter
quality" impact dot matrix printers quite cheaply.)

Depends on when in the BBCs history we are talking about. When they were
relatively new the "cheap" Epson would have been something like the RX80
(although the one people would have really wanted was the FX80, and in
today's money they would have been well over a grand)

I got a Panasonic that emulated the RX80, with "near letter quality". I
think it might have cost around £200.

Probably the equivalent of £700 in today's money... ISTR recall I got a
Brother M1009 9 pin dot matrix to start with - not a bad FX compatible,
but smaller cheaper and the tractor feed was optional. I think even that
was about £130 at the time. Nearly as much as I paid for my first VIC-20

In those days you *bought* a printer, rather than getting one (almost)
free and paying through the nose for the consumables.

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Max Demian