Here’s one of the classic print ads for that printer:  
https://mrweese.blogspot.com/2007/06/gorilla-banana.html



(larger jpeg: 
http://bp1.blogger.com/_q8e1OYCBBQ0/RnAeNtm1DaI/AAAAAAAAAD0/HA5i_xzMN0E/s1600-h/GorillaBananaAd.jpg)







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From: M100 <[email protected]> on behalf of Wayne Lorentz 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 1:54:13 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [M100] M100 Digest, Vol 99, Issue 5

Yep.  Gorilla Banana was a real low-end dot matrix printer.  I think it was 
Epson compatible.

Lots of “tech” companies named themselves after animals back then.  Elephant 
Memory Systems made floppy disks.  There was also a CP/M machine maker named 
Zebra.

> On Mar 5, 2019, at 1:38 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I think the Gorilla Banana was an inexpensive printer. If so, I'm not sure
> why that booklet is included.

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