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Printze's Brother, also an artist

A project log for The Artist--Printze

What wonders can be achieved with a 30y/o Bubble-Jet?

eric-hertzEric Hertz 08/06/2021 at 05:210 Comments

no kidding, this thing looks like it was just removed from the box and one test-page printed for the first time... how could I pass it up?

Also, a mini-itx computer... which is something I've never seen in person. They're *way* smaller than I imagined... and 12V-in might just make it run off a cigarette lighter. I'm guessing *far* less power than my lappy... but need to grab the screen outta storage to learn anything more about it... 

Though, it came as an assembled /kit/ with a lot of spare parts, including a /real/ serial port... which is a bit of an irony seeing as all the work I've been doing beating-around a USB-Serial-dongle and a TI calculator cable... #Vintage Z80 palmtop compy hackery 

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This is the first time I've seen /anything/ along these lines at any goodwill I've visited... a vintage, in the first case... and a computer in the second case... always thought it a bit weird... what...? The e-cyclers get /all/ the computers these days?

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This guy is the PC equivalent of my family's first printer... same guts, much of the same styling... so, definitely some nostalgia, too, in addition to nearly all the things that drew me to Printze, in the first place, including the same still-existant ink cartridges!

There wasn't a pricetag, so the cashier said "we better get a sticker on it in case it doesn't work and you want to return it..." "hah! It's from 1993, it probably doesn't..."

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