Thanks to all who replied.  Nice stroll down memory lane and kinda makes 
you appreciate what we have today.

To kind of put in perspective, in 2000, we paid $48,000 for one of those 
Scitek scanners.  Today, you can get the same optical density, optical 
resolution, and scan area for under $700.

Kurt Granroth wrote:

> On Jan 17, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Don Calfa wrote:
>
>> I know this is Off Topic but, we're having a discussion about color 
>> printers and we can't think or find (Google) that first color printer 
>> for the Commodore.  What was the name and who made it?  I think the 
>> company name began with the letter M.
>
>
> The only printers that stick in my memory as being significant were 
> the Okidata Okimate printers.  I remember really wanting one of 
> those.  I don't think they were the first, though.
>
> Doing some searches, I came across a page that has lots of pictures 
> and specs of Commodore printers:
>
> http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/index.html
>
> Some of them are color and have model numbers like MCS-810 so maybe 
> that's what you were remembering.  Hmm.. looks like the MCS-810 is 
> just a repackaged Okimate 10 which may have been Okidata's first color 
> dot matrix.
>
> Kurt
>
>

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