A 9-pin Star Nx-1000 Colour aka [link|http://www.atarimagazines.com/v7n10/nx1000rainbow.html|Rainbow]. It was only $626 - or pretty much the sum total of all the cash I earned in my school holiday job that year.

I thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. never mind it would happily take 30 minutes to print one page. (8 passes per line could do that to you...)

I'm sure the rest of the family loved it too, the wonderful dot-matrix noise at 3am when I was pulling all-nighters to get school assignments finished on time, and so on.

On the plus side, the colour ribbons were only about $25 :)