I'll add that in frustration, I _cannot_ get PC Paint Pro 2.x to work in PCjr graphics mode, so I'll be going with PC Paint 3.1. It uses Inset to print, and luckily the entire Inset Systems corporate archive is in a basement two blocks away from here...The guy at the Danbury Hackerspace's jaw will drop when he realizes I'm running his software. - DanSent via the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable smartphone -------- Original message --------From: Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Date: 4/5/24 16:50 (GMT-05:00) To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Dan FitzGerald <danjfitzgerald@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Consignment shot-in-the-dark question Bill,OKI or Epson would be my best choice. If I'm going more period, I'llbe using PC Paint Plus, which supports Okimate 20 Color and Epson JX-80. But I've managed to get PC Paint 3.1 and Inset 2.1 installed, andthose support the Okimate 20 Color, and the Epson B&W and Color 9- and24-pin printers. Regards,Dan FitzGeraldThey/Them or She/HerClassical Computing Laboratory at IBM-Poughkeepsiehttp://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger-----Original Message-----From: Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>Reply-To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>Cc: Bill Degnan <billdegnan@gmail.com>Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Consignment shot-in-the-dark questionDate: 04/05/2024 02:29:24 PMThere would not have been a lot of color printers for the PC Jr fromthattime, which model did you have in mind? A Gorilla printer or OKIprinter?BillOn Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 11:16 AM Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:> I'm exhibiting a PCjr for VCF East, and have been getting it prepped> for the event. It occured to me the other day to install a> paintbrush> program on it, and after I was done with that it occurred to me that> maybe it would be worth having a color dot matrix printer to go with> it,> > Does anybody happen to be selling a working, period-appropriate,> color> dot-matrix printer at consignment this year? (But not an ImageWriter> II, I am looking for something that would have been hooked up to a> PCjr). If so, let me know and what you're asking for it... if the> price is right I'd like to purchase it and some ink for it and get it> hooked up into my exhibit> > Regards,> Dan FitzGerald> They/Them or She/Her> Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM-Poughkeepsie> http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger> >