{"id":1114,"date":"2015-02-23T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2015-02-25T15:02:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T20:02:36","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-axiom-printer-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1114\/retro-scan-of-the-week-axiom-printer-card","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Axiom Printer Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/axiom_print_card_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/axiom_print_card_small.jpg\" alt=\"AXIOM EX-801 EX-820 printer card TRS-80, Commodore PET, Apple II advertisement - BYTE November 1979\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>* Feathered hair not included<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ah, the good ole days when you had to pay $535 (that&#8217;s $1,744 in today&#8217;s dollars) for the privilege of <em>merely being able to<\/em> hook a printer to your home computer.  What can I say &#8212; it was a useful feature.<\/p>\n<p>My first computer, an Apple II+, came equipped with a Grappler+ printer card (from the previous owner), although I can&#8217;t recall ever using it.  Instead, I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/685\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-compuserve-school-report\" target=\"_blank\">printed school reports<\/a> by that time from whichever family MS-DOS machines we had at the time, each of which included a built-in parallel port for printer use.<\/p>\n<p>What a great day it was when I switched from a noisy dot matrix printer to the that awesome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/914\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-cave-bbs-turns-20\" target=\"_blank\">Canon Bubblejet<\/a> we had.  Silent printing!  And the day we got our first full-color photo capable HP inkjet printer around 1996.  It was pretty low resolution, but still amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I don&#8217;t print much.  I have a color laser copier in service to reproduce scanned documents (in lieu of a copy machine) in case I need a hard copy of something &#8212; usually a form or contract &#8212; to mail.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From BYTE Magazine &#8211; November 1979, p.162 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Do you regularly print anything from your computer these days?  What do you print?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Feathered hair not included Ah, the good ole days when you had to pay $535 (that&#8217;s $1,744 in today&#8217;s dollars) for the privilege of merely being able to hook a printer to your home computer. What can I say &#8212; it was a useful feature. My first computer, an Apple II+, came equipped with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[284,150,61,1048,113,1049,1050,1052,1051,60,186],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-284","tag-advertisement","tag-apple-ii","tag-axiom","tag-byte","tag-ex-801","tag-ex-820","tag-pet","tag-printer-card","tag-retro-scan","tag-trs-80"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}