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Re:MX-80 – Ahead of its time: A small, lightweight computer ... by userbinator on Sunday December 09, 2018 @01:09PM (#18642260)
They go about EUR200+ these days. Sadly, the one I'd liked (DIN A3 format, so to be able to print out long lines of code without wrapping, with 4 colors for some basic syntax highlite) are in the EUR1000 range.

The reason for this being that they're still produced with the same level of quality they used to be, while "consumer level" printers have become more cost-optimised and less reliable. Dot matrix printers are still used in commercial/industrial applications so they haven't been subjected to the same race-to-the-bottom that consumer printers have.

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Re:MX-80 – Ahead of its time: A small, lightweight computer ... by zmix on Friday December 14, 2018 @10:14AM (#18681320)
Yes, I understand. InkJets bring in the money via the ink and also, the market for dot-matrix must now be smaller, than it was, when that printing technique was the only affordable on the market.
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