1520 plotter (was RE: Your VIC-20 is worth $300!!! W_at_W!)

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Tue Jan 29 11:01:52 2002

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> Rumor has it that Gunther Schadow may have mentioned these words:
> >Ethan Dicks wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I'd love to have a handful of these - I have a real 1520 as well as the
> >> Atari plotter (and pens and paper).
> >
> >
> >That reminds me that I have one of those too. Is there any
> >recognized method of poor-man's pen replacement? Crayons?
> >Ballpens?
>
> Radio Shack.
>
> No, really! Radio Shack.
>
> Last I checked, they still stock replacement pens for their CGP-115,
> (and the PC-2 printer/plotter) which just happened to be based on the
> same carriage & pens -- they're really quite reasonable (like, $4 or
> $5 USD for a pack of 3 - either all black, or red/green/blue) and if
> you toss them a few extra bones (like $3 or so) they'll have it
> shipped right to your house.

It's a discontinued item.

They closed down the Houston area outlet store based on the little info I
can gather. RS' customer relations department didn't have a clue as to
what was going on with the Houston outlet store.

> Oh, and the 1520 I just *happen* to have sitting next to my desk here
> at work, uses a standard IEC 120V power plug - the same one you find
> on all of your computer, office-calculator & other equipment - usually
> cost you around $3.00 at a decent computer shop. (ahem - like mine...
> ;-)

I need to look at mine I guess. Maybe it isn't a 1520? I thought it needed
some kind of wall-wart.

-Toth
Received on Tue Jan 29 2002 - 11:01:52 GMT