History of Tandy Pocket Computers

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(10-04-2022 01:50 PM)Jeff_Birt Wrote:  The pinion gears are always broken, I do have new brass replacements available and a few extra sets of pens as well.

I got my Radio Shack PC-2 and printer/cassette interface today. I'm currently out camping but ran home to pick up the package. A quick disassembly shows that I lucked out on batteries. The positive terminal of the battery has just a little crust on it and the negative is clean. Should be able to build up a new battery pack and have this one running.

The printer mechanism looks to be a bit torn up (was noted in the eBay listing along with pictures), but the Sharp unit that I have on the bench with the crusty main board does have a nice printer.

I might be interested in a couple gears. Let me see what I have between the two printer mechanisms I have now (once I'm back home and can put everything on the bench for better inspection). The new RS plotter came with three pens in a tube (all but black), but they're all dried out.