At 02:36 AM 12/11/98 +0000, you wrote:
> This was a battery-powered printer? In that case, I sit slackjawed in
>fascination at the ingenuity of this engineering. I want one!
There are, of course, lots of battery-powered printers. I used a Canon
BJ-20e (or BJ-10e?) for years to print invoices at client sites. Had a
switch to turn on/off battery charging when using AC so as not to build a
memory in the battery.
Radio Shack had one that was about the size of half a ream of paper, or one
of those clipboards with storage underneat. Slip some paper inside, hook
up a cable, print, and out comes a printed page.
Mannesman-Tally had one that ran on batteries, did 300dpi, 6ppm, LJ II
compatible printing for under $1K, at a time when LaserJets were about that
price.
I believe HP's portable deskjet ran on batts too.
Then, of course, there were plenty of portables with built-in printers,
especially those from Panasonic, Canon, and Sharp. And a lot of the
"pocket computers" (Casio, Sharp, TRS-80, Panasonic) had portable printers
they could attach to.
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Received on Fri Dec 11 1998 - 02:37:03 GMT