Wow! Looks like my "paper is dead" post stole the thread, big time! My apologies to my old friend Richard Cini, who started the thread with his great work to aid recovering early-early MS-DOS development from paper listings. Paper is a recoverable media! Um, the consensus issues about printer exhibitions, seem to be bulk, sustained visitor interest, plus restoration & maintenance. My brilliant work-around idea for an exhibit, would be a video jukebox of printer demonstrations. Select the printer, hear and see it in operation on the screen for a few minutes - then move on, next printer or next exhibit. These could be taped at home! Wadda think? Maybe one printer for show, the smell of ink, the buzz of pint head pins? Otherwise a collection of dead print heads would be portable - I've got a neat set of Selectric typeballs to show off, would that be of interest? What did you just call me? Print mechs are marvels of mechanical technology! I'm gonna think about this some more. Send me some private emails to encourage me. Thanks for voting for printers! - regards Herb Johnson, retrotechnology.com