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Skriven 2009-08-17 23:46:22 av BURTON FORD (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HANSCHKA
Ärende: printer letter quality
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Hi Ruth          8/17/2009-> 


RH> I have some from an old dot matrix printer - "letter quality" my
-> foot.
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RH->I can remember shooting long documents to high speed green bar
spitters,
RH-> when I didn't care about quality.  It was better than my dot matrix,
rh->come to that.  

Way back when I had a Commodore 64 computer [first one in our town] I got
ripped off by an insurance man.  I sent a letter to the company and to my
stunned surprise I got a phone call from a Vice President who was coming to
dinky little Newark to see me.  He flew from Rhode Island [I think] to
Rochester and rented a car.

He truly was a VP, and he never admitted it, but apparently they were going
to see anyone who complained about that agents sales methods.  He wanted to
know what would satisfy me.   I was young and stupid and all I wanted was
for things to go back to the state when the salesman first got me to put up
more money to save money.  [yeah]   The VP guarenteed that, and we had a
cup of coffee together.  He said that one of the reasons they paid
attention to my complaint was that I obviously had a very good computer and
printer system.  Really!   He asked to see my setup!

I was still laughing when I showed him my C=64 and my thermal printer
[cheap!!!].  The printer head was heated and it melted the ink [wax?] off
the one-use printer tape and on to the paper.  It did do a lovely looking,
letter quality job... coal black and shiny as Hell.  It sure fooled a JH
VP.   

 Burt  
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