Subj : Re: Color version of "The
To : J.B. Wood
From : Ron Lauzon
Date : Sun Jan 19 2020 10:14 am
-=> J.B. Wood wrote to Ron Lauzon <=-
JW> Hello, and IIRC there was a C-64 color printer that used 4 ballpoint
JW> pens. Don't know what commercially-available apps might have been
JW> available that would use it, though. Sincerely,
Yes, I have the Radio Shack version of it (several printers used the same ALPS
mechanism - including my TRS-80 PC-2).
They weren't ball point, but rather stiff markers and it was closer to a
printer/plotter than the color printers that we know today. They are really
nice for printing some text and doing plotting-style drawing, but aren't very
good at making nice, full color printers.
But they would have worked out well with Print Shop. But, again, I don't
believe that something like that was commonly used by the C-64 users and, so,
Broderbund wouldn't have seen much market for a color Print Shop.
