While attempting to write a decent 10-line BASIC game I became curious about the printer emulation in Virtual T. The next thing I know I'm making fake dot-matrix printouts on my laser printer and I have to admit I had more fun with it that was reasonable. I even showed one to my completely non-interested wife who was just happy that I was entertained.
Anyway, I find myself considering picking up an actual dot matrix printer to go with my T102 just for the fun of it. Any recommendations? I'm also thinking of getting a CoCo at some point so I'd prefer one with a serial interface. I had an Epson RX-80 back in the day and I don't want to hassle with a serial to parallel adapter again. There are a few DMP-130s on eBay that look okay but I'm wondering if anyone has any experience. Is it hard/expensive to find ribbons, etc? Ironically, I'm nearly certain that I hauled a mysterious Tandy dot- matrix printer around from address to address for many years before eventually getting rid of it sometime before the move to my current house. I don't even remember why I had it (as I said I had an RX-80 as a kid) but I can picture the box in my head and I'm pretty sure I had it in the storage room at our last house but its gone now.
