[vcf-midatlantic] how about a lovely vintage printer for that computer :-)

[Dave McGuire]

On 11/18/18 7:33 PM, Sentrytv via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> But can you get ribbon cartridges?

  Ribbons for most common dot-matrix printers are still made and are
readily available.

  I hear lots of people saying they're not available anymore, probably
only based on assumptions, but I've purchased ribbons for a lot of
impact printers over the past few years.  I even found DEC LA34 ribbons
a few weeks ago and am about to order a few.

  In fact this applies to a great many things that people assume are
somehow unavailable because they've not personally purchased them for
many years.  A good example is MMJ connectors.  I bought 100 new MMJ
connectors from a cabling supplier (not a surplus dealer!) a few weeks
ago.  They actually showed up, and they're actually the right thing.

  It pleases me to no end that we can actually still get a lot of the
supplies we need to keep our stuff running.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA