[game_preservation] Old printers

[Andrew Armstrong]

Maybe donate them to one of the many computer museums if they'd take 
them. Working printers get harder and harder to find since they're so 
much less common then the hardware (of course), or at least might be 
useful for parts.

If you did document them, well, we really need to get some 
documentation/guidelines together on how best to do that, at least a 
checklist and form thing or something. Not that printers specifically 
are material for videogame preservation exactly, just in general this 
would be useful. Hmm, where was that post about what someone did with 
old kit they needed to bin - photographs, documentation etc. they 
collected digitally before selling on or donating the material...hmm...

Andrew

Devin Monnens wrote:

> I've got an old printer for my Amiga 500 (big and clunky; ink ribbons 

> are pretty dried up) and another for my TRS-80 (which I don't know if 

> it works or not). Of what use are these devices? I can think it might 

> be important to document how an old printer functions, but as the 

> weeks pass, it becomes even more difficult to justify keeping them 

> around the house. Obviously if storage space was not an issue, it 

> would be no conversation. What is your opinion on the relevance of old 

> printers?

>

> -Devin Monnens

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