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black background.
Again, you will nofbe able to
utilize the color capabilities of the Atari with a
monochrome monitor For many business ap-
plications, though, color is not as important as is
the 80-column display. Com rex, NEC, DMC, and
Kaga are some of the companies that produce a
monochrome monitor. The price range is gener-
ally about $100 to $250. A monochrome moni-
tor can be used with an Atari 800 or 1200XL,
but not with an Atari 400.
PRINTERS: DIFFERENT TYPES,
DIFFERENT PURPOSES
When using your computer for purposes other
than playing games, eventually you may find the
need for a printer A printer lets you transfer
your letters, reports, pictures, or programs you
create from the software on which your work is
stored to a sheet of paper. Finding a problem, or
bug, in a program you are writing can be a lot
easier if you have a complete printed listing of
the program in front of you . And for word pro-
cessing purposes, it's likely you will want a hard
copy (paper copy) of the letters or other docu-
ments you create.
As with most peripherals, there are
different
types of printers for different purposes. When
you only need a hard copy of your work for
yourself and the print quality is not of the
utmost importance, a dot-matrix printer will do
quite nicely. This type of printer produces letters,
numbers, and other characters made up of dots,
like the pictures you
see
in newspapers. Some
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