"It is interesting that the MX-80 was copied by several other printer manufactures."
The first printer I owned, ca. 1983, was a BMC BX-80. This printer was marketed as an "Epson Compatible", and for my purposes, it most certainly was. Driven by C-64 via the Cardco Card/?+G interface, it was capable of several standard text & imprint modes (draft, std, ital, ul, bold, etc), the CBM keyboard graphics characters and bitmap graphic images. It may also have printed custom C-64 character sets..? In any event, that printer served me flawlessly for several years until I moved on to bigger & better things. So who was BMC, anyway? I also happen to own a nice little green-screen monitor with their brand on it. It's clearly based on a B&W TV case & chassis, that lacks tuning, antenna connections, speaker and so on - in favor of a single RCA composite input. Monitor still works great, it's my go-to for old home computers. On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 8:47 AM, dwight <dkel...@hotmail.com> wrote: > It is interesting that the MX-80 was copied by several other > > printer manufactures. For a while, the term MX-80 compatible > > was an important selling feature. > > The Canon Cat had configurations for many different Canon printers > > built in, from daisy wheel to bubble jet. It had one extra configuration > > called 'common printer' and guess which printer that is. The MX-80! > > Dwight > > > ________________________________ > From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Scott Kevill < > sc...@kevill.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 8, 2016 6:49:49 PM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Epson MX-80 Technical Manual? > > Just wanted to say thanks for doing this scan (and of course all the other > great work you do), Al, the quality was fantastic. > > For anyone else that didn't notice this (or forgot to check back), it's at: > http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/epson/ > printer/P80000001A_MX-80_Technical_Manual.pdf > > And it's much more readable (especially the diagrams). > > Scott. > > On 06/11/2016, at 1:59 AM, Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org> wrote: > > > A scan I did this morning will be up on bitsavers by 13:00 PDT > > > > On 11/5/16 9:36 AM, Dave Wade wrote: > >> They said they were working on it.. > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Keven > >>> Miller > >>> Sent: 05 November 2016 13:04 > >>> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > >>> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > >>> Subject: Re: Epson MX-80 Technical Manual? > >>> > >>> I tried this link this morning (from Utah US) and got the manual. > >>> So the link must have gotten fixed. > >>> > >>> I've placed here just in case: > >>> > >>> http://www.3kranger.com/download/epson_-_mx- > >>> 80_dot_matrix_printer_-_technical_manual.pdf > >>> > >>> Keven Miller > >>> > >>> > >>> ----- Original Message ----- > >>> From: "Scott Kevill" <sc...@kevill.com> > >>> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" > >>> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > >>> Sent: Sat 05 Nov 2016 01:24 AM > >>> Subject: Re: Epson MX-80 Technical Manual? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> On 05/11/2016, at 4:29 AM, Eric Smith <space...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Does anyone have a scan of the MX-80 Dot Matrix Printer Technical > >>> Manual? > >>>> > >>>> It's apparently intended to be available here: > >>>> > >>>> http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/39747/Epson-MX-80-Dot- > >>> Matrix-Printer-Technical-Manual/ > >>>> but I was unable to actually download it. > >
