Aucbvax.6673 fa.info-terms utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!ucbvax!info-terms Sat Apr 10 01:27:16 1982 Costs of terminal ribbons >From Schauble.Multics@MIT-MULTICS Sat Apr 10 01:17:12 1982 Just out of curiosity, I recently did a comparison of the costs of ribbons for various letter quality terminals. Here is the data. The costs shown represent only a single dealer, but I find that the relative costs hold over several dealers. The amounts are dollars per million characters, using the manufacturers estimates of ribbon life. Cloth Film Long-Life Terminal Ribbon Ribbon Film Ribbon ------------------------------------------------------------ Diablo Hytype I 5.97 26.09 N/A Diablo Hytype II 5.09 18.20 20.45 Qume 3.17 15.83 12.78 NEC 4.17 25.36 N/A Ricoh Dual Daisy 5.47 30.25 I believe that the Ricoh is also used by Radio Shack as the Daisy Wheel II printer ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.